Patricia Sun Quotes

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

We grow up to respect the gray. Black or white, one or the other, is childish. It represents the worldview of someone who does not know the world.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

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.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

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

There are two sides to every question.

The color of truth is gray.

I don't accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

People who want to see things in stark dualities are not going to get much out of my music.

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

The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.

I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.

I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.

We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.

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

My life won't be a series of either/ors - musician or actor, rock or country, straitlaced or rebellious, this or that, yes or no. The real choices in life aren't that simple.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?