Ogden Nash Quotes

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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

The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.

Every side of a coin has another side.

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.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

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

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

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

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.'

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.

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

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

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

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

Life is full of contrasts.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

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

I'm all about polarities and juxtapositions.

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

I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.