Weyes Blood Quotes

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

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

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

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

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.

I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light.

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

The dark is light enough.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.