Quotes About Paradox

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

I don't know if English is the only language where some expressions only and solely mean the opposite of what they say but we do have an awful lot of them.

Mark Watson and Paul Sinha have been exactly the same - very, very clever, and very, very thick.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

I never said half the things I said.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

The paradox of perfection is that you should try and achieve it by doing quality work even though you know you can never achieve it.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.

Life is like a seesaw, a game where the movement and the excitement come from a balance of opposites, because it will always inevitably be full of paradox. I believe that the key to progress and even to survival in life and work is to be aware that contradictions can coexist, and to learn to live with them.

Cuando quiero llorar, no lloro, y a veces lloro sin querer...

Why, if we're still breathing and eating, is there such unhappiness? Dissatisfaction is part of the deal of living because simple existence is full of contradictions; we want individuality, to stand out from the crowd, yet we want be part of a tribe. We're driven and busy and yet we want peace. And worst of all, we want things to stay the same despite the fact that everything changes

Death is simple, but my evasions are complex.

Pure has become impure, Impure has now become pure. Good has now become bad, Bad has become evil. For one to live is to die, for one to die is to live. -Kikyo

He's old enough to know what's right, but young enough not to choose it. He's wise enough to win the world, but fool enough to lose it.

How can we be afraid of those we love? It was a question that puzzled me then, and puzzles me still.

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.

Paradoxically, without self-control you can't be free.

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.