Cedric Bixler-Zavala Quotes

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

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

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

There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.

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

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

I'm all about polarities and juxtapositions.

Where there's love, there's hate; where there's positivity, there's ignorance.

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

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.

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

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

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

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

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

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

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

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