Quotes About Paradox

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.

If smoking is so bad for you, how come it cures salmon?

You might be a firefighter if you've ever smoked and there wasn't a cigarette in sight.

Los posmodernos, al aparentar que iban aún más allá de la teoría situacionista, en verdad la convirtieron en lo contrario de lo que era.

Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.

The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

tapping Zeno's

Strange how suffering can look beautiful if you get far enough away.

Though it will seem simple at first, it's actually quite complicated. No, no, it will seem complicated at first, but it's actually quite simple.

It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifference of the world—what pretensions humans have!

Funny how to celebrate peace we seem to want to simulate war.

the way time here feels simultaneously immense and tiny.

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

Bei den Frauen gibt es nur zwei Möglichkeiten. Entweder sie sind Engel. Oder sie leben noch.

There are some relationships that succeed only because they are impossible, that actually need unhappiness to continue.

It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

In most respects, the time has flown by. In others, it seems as though it wasn't moving fast enough.

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Under each formula lies a corpse.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.