Quotes About Paradox

Una alegría más triste que la tristeza.

How odd and inexplicable are the paths of destiny. What intention did Providence have by ruining the one who it has raised up, and raising up the one who it has ruined?

Life is beautiful, just very unfair.

Everyone knows a white blackbird is nothing more than a ghost, a shadow of what it ought to be.

Perhaps what people said was true, that any man who lived long enough would eventually realize that the way in which he was cursed was also the blessing he received.

I am a woman of violent contradiction.

Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions

but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.

It was ugly and precious all at once.

this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.

It is the worst of times. It is the best of times. Try as I might I cannot find a more appropriate opening for this volume: it helps tremendously that these words have been spoken before and, thanks to Charles Dickens, written at the beginning of A Tale of Two Cities.

For instance: scorpions, vipers, and yellow jackets in paradise? How to accept gracefully the part of GOD that stings!

It could be argued that death is inherently absurd, and that grinning is not necessarily an inappropriate response. I mean absurd in the sense of ridiculous, unreasonable. One second a person is there, the next they're not.

You're a throwback. To what? Jess considered this. Hi-tech at work, Emily was paradoxically old-fashioned in her life. She didn't even own a television. The nineteenth century, Jess concluded. No. Eighteenth. You can be eighteenth. I'll be nineteenth. I never pictured you as a Victorian. No, early nineteenth century, said Jess, who had always been a stickler when it came to imaginary games and books. The Blue Fairy, not Tinker Bell. Lucy, not Susan. Jo, not Amy. Austen, not the Brontes.

relaxation is like drinking bourbon to get sober.

The great unspoken paradox of the arduous process of psychoanalysis is that the best patients are the ones who never really needed it in the first place. Abnormal

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Yo pensaba: sí, sí, tonta, muérete y verás. Y se murió, mira por donde. El listo al hoyo y la tonta al bollo...

BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Optimist , n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed

ABSURDITY, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Ugliness, n.: A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.