Alice Eve Quotes

You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?

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

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

I'm a full-of-contradictions kind of guy.

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

I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.

There are “well-known secrets” out there and there are people who are “so happy they could die.” Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they’re right. Basically what I’m saying is, I usually don’t know what people are talking about.

I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing.

Everything was good. But it was awful, too.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

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

If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out?

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.

Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

Life is never free of contradictions.

I'm full of contradictions.

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

I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

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

It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

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

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say, 'I am this' and part of you is not that - means that you can say it.