Alice Hoffman Quotes

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

Out of all things bad, something good. Out of all things good, something bad.

I think if you know one direction, then you can feel the other one. I don't think you can be truly, insanely joyous if you haven't ever felt the flip side of it.

Everything in life is a double-edged sword.

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

Water is good, but if you have too much, you drown. So is water bad, or is it good? It's both.

So you have to take the good with the bad.

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.

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.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

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.

It's always a balance, and sometimes I'm on the good side of that scale, and sometimes I'm on the bad side.

Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.

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

Life is not going from bad to good, but it's a balance of the two that kind of goes up and down. There are bad things and there are good things.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us.

On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.