Karen Kilgariff Quotes

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

Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.

The negative is just as important as the positive.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

We have the ability to attract and repel at the same time, which I think you should embrace. Otherwise, you're just going to be, like, this Neil Diamond act.

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

Everybody's got a serious side and everybody's got a fun side.

I love shifting between being super cute and aggressive. It's funny.

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

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

Dark can't exist with the light. Ain't nothing dark about God.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

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 order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships.