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Quotes About Paradox

Es que tenía que ser así, que lo que hace la felicidad del hombre sea también la fuente de su desdicha?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Death is what makes life fun.
~ Billy Collins
I enjoy life. I think I'll enjoy death even more. Life is too confusing.
~ Cat Stevens
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
~ Agatha Christie
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
~ Heraclitus
There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.
~ William C. Brown
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
~ Thomas Merton
Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.
~ Richard Crashaw
My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
~ Charles Lamb
Life is never straightforward or emotionally black and white.
~ Christopher Meloni
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
~ Oscar Wilde
For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.
~ Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
~ Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
Where all life dies death lives.
~ John Milton
Life is beautiful, and terrible, and strange.
~ Johnette Napolitano
My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
~ Joseph Addison
Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.
~ William Mountford
it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.
~ Gabrielle Roy
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
~ George Bernard Shaw
... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
~ Gertrude Atherton
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.
~ David Hyde Pierce