Quotes About Paradox

A halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

You gave birth to your own death.

Cine ?tie, se poate ca via?a s? fie moarte iar moartea s? fie via??.

It was like the Easter Bunny met an agent of death.

It was hard to love something so much and want it to disappear at the same time

Free as air; that's what they say- free as air. Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

Ta näis sõnatult ütlevat: Vaadake mind. Ma olen oma panuse andnud. Ma olen kaunis. See minu ilu on midagi täiesti ebatavalist. Ma olen loodud inimeste rõõmuks. Aga mis ma ise sellest saan? Kus on minu tasu? See oligi viimase kümne aasta peamine muutus; ja see tegelikult oligi tema tasu - see teda igavesti saatev nõiduslik nukrus, mis läks otse südamesse ja võttis sõnad suust; see andis tema ilule täiuse.

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses—

The very qualities I love you for are the ones that will always make you a failure.

There's only one lesson to be learned from life anyway.... That there's no lesson to be learned from life.

It is not unlikely that she would have accepted any idea encased in this radiant formula—which was perhaps not a formula; it was the reductio ad absurdum of all formulas.

Upon it floated swans like boats and boats like swans, both lost in the nothingness of the heartless beauty.

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual There!—yet

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him.

I was within and without simultaneously enchanted and repelled by inexhaustible variety of life.

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. Myrtle

I was within and without simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life

sono troppo giovane per essere vecchia e troppo vecchia per essere giovane! Non riesco a collocarmi in nessuna categoria.

There is a paradoxical feature of pandemics: even though they have come to be named for specific locations, they are decidedly not contained by borders.

To understand, I destroyed myself. To understand is to forget about loving. I know nothing more simultaneously false and telling than the statement by Leonardo da Vinci that we cannot love or hate something until we've understood it.