The Weeknd Quotes

All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place. There's a part of me that's a total cad and a part of me that's also a family man.

I was really good at being a bad guy.

I love that everyone on 'Scream Queens' has a moment where they are the hero, and they are the villain.

Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

Because you aren't who you think you are. You aren't what everyone else believes. You might have delivered countless deaths but you love more fiercely than anyone I've ever known.

I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain in all of us.

Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

We see every day that our very laws have both sides of the fence.

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard to create.

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

Demon, angel, all the same thing if you go back far enough, or cut deep enough.

There's a part of you that you can get a hold of, and there's a part of you that you can never get a hold of, and those are opposite things. Who are you? Which one are you? You are combinations of opposites.

Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)

I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.

I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits? Are you noisy with quiet times? Or are you quiet with noisy times? Are you happy with some sad days? Or are you sad with some happy days? Are you neat with some sloppy ways? Or are you sloppy with some neat ways? And on and on and on and on and on and on he went. I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again.

From the first time he'd met her, he'd sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a waiflike quality. She could be brash, and at times deliberately suggestive, yet she was painfully shy. She was incredibly easy to get along with, yet she had few friends. She was a talented artist in her own right, but so self-conscious about her work that she rarely completed a piece and preferred to work with other people's art and ideas.