People who have a way with words

Pumpkinstew · 4 Mar 2015 at 13:18

theleg said:
Basically it goes - land exists, the sky exists. Sadness exists, happiness exists. And is basically saying you can't have one without the other.

'On rock I stand, in air I breathe. In joy I smile, in sorrow I grieve.'

I dunno, maybe there's something subtle and profound in the korean that I'm missing.

'Choose life. Choose land. Choose sky. Choose sadness and happiness and a ******* big television set.'

mrbazmondo · 4 Mar 2015 at 13:52

I'd go with the batman yin and yang pic.

The Dread Pirate · 4 Mar 2015 at 13:57

I **** you not, without land there would be no sky, without sorrow there would be no joy!

exhashdotdot · 4 Mar 2015 at 15:11

No offence mate, but your friend sounds like a complete tool.

CosmicClown · 4 Mar 2015 at 16:09

Mynight said:
Yin yang the end.

This tbh....

A symbol can convey a whole lot more than the English language ever could.

HecFam · 4 Mar 2015 at 16:18

'Did my heart love 'till now? Forswear its sight. For I never saw true beauty 'till this night. 'Tis Juliet, and if she's not my true love I wouldst eat my hat. She could **** on my chest and slap it with a cricket bat.'

Skidder · 4 Mar 2015 at 17:28

CosmicClown said:
This tbh....

A symbol can convey a whole lot more than the English language ever could.

deep

Dj_Jestar · 4 Mar 2015 at 18:29

"Not a rose without a thorn."

"No heaven without hell." (cue atheist sermon)

Or the more broscience one: "No pain no gain"

Arsonist · 4 Mar 2015 at 18:30

'LAND! SKY! SAD! HAPPY! PIZZA!'

dacads · 4 Mar 2015 at 18:50

Like the Earth has a Sky, every happiness has its sadness.

Like the Earth and Sky, happiness and sadness meet.

The Earth has a sky, as happiness has sadness.

Sliver · 4 Mar 2015 at 18:53

Arsonist said:
'LAND! SKY! SAD! HAPPY! PIZZA!'

I fully endorse this opinion. Pizza is the food of kings and should be revered and on occasion feared (the ones with a trillion chilies on that is).

Burned_Alive · 4 Mar 2015 at 20:07

It's never going to work with the land/sky analogy.

You're better off going with something like;

To be truly happy, you must first be sad.

Sadness is the key to true happiness.

It takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence.

Sliver · 4 Mar 2015 at 20:10

Burned_Alive said:
It's never going to work with the land/sky analogy.

You're better off going with something like;

To be truly happy, you must first be sad.
Sadness is the key to true happiness.
It takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence.

To summarise then:

You need the bitterness in order to appreciate the sweetness.

Angilion · 5 Mar 2015 at 02:26

If they really want to use English, they could go with a phrase that fits English better and has a similar sentiment. There is no light without darkness...something along those lines. The idea that a thing can only be properly known by also knowing its opposite.