Alan Ball Quotes

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

Out of all things bad, something good. Out of all things good, something bad.

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

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

The light is the left hand of darkness.

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

Dark can't exist with the light. Ain't nothing dark about God.

Every side of a coin has another side.

We inhabit a world where we're taught that we can have what we desire, and tend to act on it - the least we can do is admit to it when we succumb to our instincts.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.

Every Luke Skywalker needs his Darth Vader.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.

There's a lot more people that enjoy me playing the enforcer, the destroyer. If bad disappears one day, then good goes out of business.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.