Quotes About Paradox

Life's too damn funny for me to explain.

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

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

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

Life can be both hell and bliss or it can be nothing at all.

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.

For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.

I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about.

That he loved her was his life's greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.

There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That's why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

What fun is life without a little death?

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

Living is hell of a death

Often faith comes in the aftermath of doubt and doubt comes in the aftermath of faith. And the one that comes second is often much more powerful. In the end we have to abandon both.