Quotes About Paradox

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

Everything that is contradictory creates life

All is going well, very well, I couldn't ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

Life swarms with innocent monsters.

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.

All beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position.

Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!

The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.

Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives?

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

The nearer to the church, the further from God.