Quotes about Duality
Sometimes. Sometimes it's a ambulance. Today it's a hearse.
— Toni Morrison
They beat their children with one hand and stole for them with the other. The hands that felled trees also cut umbilical cords; the hands that wrung the necks of chickens and butchered hogs also nudged African violets into bloom; the arms that loaded sheaves, bales, and sacks rocked babies into sleep. They patted biscuits into flaky ovals of innocence—and shrouded the dead. They plowed all day and came home to nestle like plums under the limbs of their men.
— Toni Morrison
The brothers approaching the cellar were once identical.
— Toni Morrison
Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We partake of the ideal but we also make poo.
— JM Coetzee
As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.
— Thomas Adams
Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.
— Carl Jung
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
— Catherine of Siena
Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.
— George Whitefield
Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
— Khalil Gibran
You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
— Victor Hugo
There are certain natures which cannot have love on one side without hatred on the other.
— Victor Hugo