Matt Bellamy Quotes

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it's just human nature.

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

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

It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.

It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.

Without contraries there is no progression.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

Ever hear that expression, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times"? That's what high school was like for me. Both of those - all the time.

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we chase. We are problem-solvers. We must be continuously tested and we continuously test ourselves. And it will not end until our lives end because of life itself.

I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.

There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

As a human race, we have good people and bad people, and everyone has agendas.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

Every weakness contains within itself a strength.