Norman Davies Quotes

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

My perspective on life is now to try to play music that reflects that life and death are part of the same coin. And to know about life, we must really examine the function - like death. Life tells you a lot about what death is, not what people say it is.

We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

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.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Everything has good and bad.

Every human society has its lights and its shadows. That's the reality of existence.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

We have this desire for that balance between death and life or death and joy. We want to believe that something we can also have.

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

The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us.