Sarah Brightman Quotes

The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work.

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

That's my favorite kind of television, where it's not wrapped up in a pretty little bow. It's like life. You deal with one thing in your life, 500 others rear their head.

Every life is a mystery. There is nobody whose life is normal and boring.

We try to do that for stories - we try to say, 'OK, here's the message, here's the theme, here's the good people and the bad.' Life is not nearly like that.

The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

Life is never straightforward or emotionally black and white.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons. I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.

We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

I never wanted to make it too easy for people to sum me up.

I think certain people are the way they are for certain reasons that we can't necessarily judge without knowing.

In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final . Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.