Carl Jung Quotes

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.

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.

Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.

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

let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that day is to have meaning; silence, that speech is to have meaning; illness, that health is to have meaning; war, that peace is to have meaning. Let us give thanks to Him for having given us weariness and pain, so that rest and joy are to have meaning. Let us give thanks to him, whose wisdom is infinite.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Everything contains its antithesis.

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

There's no hero without a villain.

There's two sides to the sword. It's like, for as many people that love you, there's all the people out there who hate you.

I'm a religious, spiritual person, but if there is good in the world, there must be evil, too.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

I think about Syria when I go to bed at night.

This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

I'm a pretty solid Christian. But even as an altar boy, I was always asking the bigger questions--you know: if God is, in fact, good, what is all this death I see? And if God is gentle, what is all this suffering I see? I've found some of the answers in Eastern religion. It explained my Christianity to me. Good and evil are the same thing. You can't have one without the other. It's the balance, it's the temperance of things.

We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.