Serj Tankian Quotes

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

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

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

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

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.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

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

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?'

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

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.'

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.

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.

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.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

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

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.