Ray Bradbury Quotes

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions are what make characters interesting, and I've been lucky to be presented with characters who have a lot of contradictions.

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff. I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided. It's a real thing, double nature. I think we're split in a much more devastating way than psychology can ever reveal. It's not so cute. Not some little thing we can get over. It's something we've got to live with

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

I'm full of contradictions.

When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it's just human nature.

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.

Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

There's a duality in every man and every woman.

I'm nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.

The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.

It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.