Diane Keaton Quotes

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.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

Life is everything and nothing all at once.

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

Life is full of contrasts.

Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

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?'

There's a dark side to everything.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.