Quotes About Paradox

The strongest foundation we can find is the realization that there isn't a foundation.

Stephen reached out to her then, entwined her fingers in his. It was not difficult for me. You must understand that. For me, it was an easy choice, for it was the only choice. I know, she said again, and coming into his arms she clung tightly, resting her cheek against his chest as she sought to comprehend the ultimate irony, she who had no irony at all in her soul, that the qualities she most loved in Stephen were the very ones that were crippling his kingship.

India is not an underdeveloped country but a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the sign of a superior mind "is the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time.

Did you know that you can be killed by a benign tumor? Imagine that news headline: Native American poet killed by oxymoron.

I mean, you have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too.

Death is always incongruous.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the sign of a superior mind 'is the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time.' Do you believe this is true? And is it also true that you once said, 'The only time white people tell the truth is when they keep their mouths shut'?

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

How much longer will I live? (Urian) You're immortal, barring death. (Acheron) That doesn't make sense. (Urian) Most of life doesn't. (Acheron)

It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.

It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.

Scientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death -- though they say it's virtually impossible to get decent Chinese food.

How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?

Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

One of the most difficult and ironic murder weapons is the life jacket.

Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears.

What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy

Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

How are you gonna make an 'idol' from the type of person you're trying to avoid in real life?

Isn't everyone's life a mass of contradictions?

Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.