Brian Eno Quotes

Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

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.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

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.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

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?'

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

I like characters who are contradictory.

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.

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

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

There are gray areas in everything.

I like to be able to feel as many parts of myself while watching a movie at one time. I think that's what 'Super' is - it's funny, but it's also sad. It's very touching in certain ways, and it's also got a very dark sense of humor. So it's allowed to go anywhere.

I think people have a hard time dealing with a bunch of things at once. They can't have something be disturbing and funny at the same time. They can't have that kind of combination. Which is weird to me because I feel complicated about most things.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

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?

Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself. "It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.

It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.

I never feel the need to go out and make some grand statement that I'm dark and twisty and complicated, because I'm not that either. It's just not as simple as ponies and rainbows, though I do love ponies and rainbows.

I consider myself a natural optimist. I like the dark side of things.

People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do.

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.