Quotes About Paradox

Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different!

Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn

Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?

What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?

Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

It's funny how life can change so much but still nothing changes at all. Or maybe it's that life changes, but you as a person don't or maybe we adjust, but don't actually change.

The Simple Life is not a simple life.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.

Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key.

Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

Life seems complicated to me; I feel confused a lot of the time by life. I feel confused about the fact that we can be so tender as creatures to one another, and so monstrous at the same time.

You ever have that feeling? Like you've known someone your whole life but you don't know them at all.

Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?

The ridiculous is closer to life's source than the sensible.

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

Life is everything and nothing all at once.

I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.