Lynn Coady Quotes

Humanity has both its beautiful and its ugly sides.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.

Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

There's a dark side to everything.

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.'

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place. There's a part of me that's a total cad and a part of me that's also a family man.

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.