Quotes about Dual Feelings

Peter Finch

Most of the time, I'm pleased that people don't recognize me. But I don't hate it when they do.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Fernando Pessoa

My joy is as painful as my pain.

Sinclair Lewis

I love America, but I don't like it.

Washed Out

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.

Gnash

My label, my genre, my everything is happy sad - I do a smiley face with eyes on both sides. So basically to me, it's totally okay to be happy and sad at the same time, it's totally okay just to be sad, it's totally okay to be happy.

Henry James

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

Neil Peart

People say to me, 'Are you still excited when you go on tour?' Should I be excited about leaving my family? No, and no one should. It's as simple as that. If you put aside the fantasy of it, it is what it is and has to be done. And that's fine, and I pour my entire energy and enthusiasm into it, but of course, I'm of two minds about the whole idea.

Dean Koontz

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

Perfume Genius

I think people have a hard time dealing with a bunch of things at once. They can't have something be disturbing and funny at the same time. They can't have that kind of combination. Which is weird to me because I feel complicated about most things.

Edmund Spenser

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

Kristin Chenoweth

I think it's fun to love-to-hate people.

Nicole Krauss

The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day you become a little more of both, which means that right now, at this exact moment, you're the happiest and saddest you've ever been in your whole life.