Duality of Life Quotes

Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.

Anything in life has a ying and a yang. It has a good and a bad. And in the case of freedom, well, freedom also gives you the freedom to be stupid.

There's this whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl.

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.

Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

I'm a child of extremes.

Life, in all its uniqueness, would not be life without the negatives and the positives.

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.

We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.

There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.

Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.

I think Brad [Furman] crafted an amazing film [The Infiltrator]. It's so complex, it's incredibly thrilling, incredibly touching and it's what people have been trying to do for years in Hollywood, is to try to capture what it's like to be undercover, what is that duality of life? And I think that Brad really caught that.

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

Sometimes I was sad, sometimes happy. Just on and off. Always I felt welcome. It's just, you know, sometimes as a human being, you cannot always be happy. You do good things, you do bad things, people talk.

I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.

I have a split - of my real home-life side that's real-life, and then the creative side that is not necessarily real-life, but it intersects my real-life so much.

The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.

One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.

I believe we are all dual beings. Some cultures actually believe we have two souls.

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.