Virginia Woolf Quotes

There are two words for everything.

I think I appear very innocent and soft, but I'm actually very dark and edgy. It's a weird dichotomy.

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am.

Life really is a series of contrasts.

Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?

Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

Every side of a coin has another side.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

I have an incredibly dark, mysterious, witchy side and another side that's very bubbly and cheerleader-esque.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.

I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

All of the universe will be divided into two parts.

Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

I'm all about polarities and juxtapositions.