Quotes About Paradox

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?

Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

Knowing that a paradox is required for life as we know it to exist allows me to give up trying constantly to understand it and instead just feel it and enjoy it.

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

Life is the longest death in California.

Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.

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)

These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

Life is often confusing and sad, and I'm a big fan of the slap and the tickle, as they say.

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.

The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life dramatically improves.

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

When your weakness are your strengths, you cry.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

ah! I thought the wolves used to devour the heretics, but now I see the heretics eat the wolves.

How could men get fat by being bad and starve by being good? I thought and thought about my vision, and it made me very sad.