Daley Thompson Quotes

I consider myself a natural optimist. I like the dark side of things.

I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.

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.

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

Life really is a series of contrasts.

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

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.

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.

Every side of a coin has another side.

I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

I'm so optimistic, it's depressing.

I have an incredibly dark, mysterious, witchy side and another side that's very bubbly and cheerleader-esque.

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?'

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

There's a dark side to everything.

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.