Khalil Gibran Quotes

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

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 am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate.

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

It's not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.

I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

I have fervently been on both sides of that question at different times.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

Before we ever had a script or anything, I was attracted to the idea of playing a character that housed within himself two opposing traits.

Even the things we are certain about are only an illusion. We are born with a female side and a male side, and these two sides are always fighting and challenging each other. This is why anything we want to do, we have the other side of telling us not to do it, to be careful about it.

I am a living contradiction.

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.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.

All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.

There is another man within me that's angry with me.