Robert Frost Quotes

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it's just human nature.

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.

Principally, I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartedly love John, Peter, Thomas and so forth …

Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.

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.

In order to love fighting, I have to hate it.

I feel like humans, when you're faced with decisions, you can go up and down: duality.

People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.

Everybody is God. Everybody is the devil. And if you don't realize you have both parts, that's what really causes problems.

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

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

People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

I'm a Gemini, so I'm very dual. I love something and I hate it at the same time, so that probably comes out in the lyrics.

My only love sprung from my only hate.