Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

Life is everything and nothing all at once.

Human experience is usually paradoxical.

Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can.

People are concrescences of ambiguity.

Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates

We're not meant for happiness, you and I.

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.