Quotes About Paradox

Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn't it?

...cassoulet, like life itself, is not so simple as it seems.

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people.

Infinity is just zero spelled backwards.

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

Death fosters life that life may suckle death.

From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.

What is life without incompatible realities?

They can send death at once, but life is slower.

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

Life [had] replaced logic.