Quotes About Paradox

How can your worst nightmare also be your wildest dream?" -Maisie

Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.

Ese resol naranja de pájaros y jaulas. Ese momento casi hipnótico de desajuste cronológico en que dos mundos paralelos se superponen y por un instante se cruzan, sin reconocerse, inconsolables ambos, el primer empleado del día llevando una tartera y el último juerguista de la noche llevando una rosa teñida.

Un sangue-misto di rado si trova contento in compagnia: c'è sempre qualcosa che gli fa ombra , ma in realtà è lui che si fa ombra da se stesso, come il ladro e il tesoro, che si fanno ombra uno con l'altro

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

Under each formula lies a corpse.

I have all the defects of other people and yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even the man I most admire, he would seem to me a charlatan or a fool.

Dragostea fiind o întîlnire dureroasa si paradoxala a fericirii cu disperarea, el e prea neîncapator excesului ei inuman. De aceea, de cîte ori te trezesti din iubire, pare ca ti-a putrezit timpul prin nu mai stiu ce inima.

I have recommended you the dignity of skepticism: yet here I am, prowling around the Absolute. Technique of contradiction? Remember, rather, what Flaubert said: "I am a mystic and I believe in nothing".

Un zîmbet inepuizabil, pe spatiul unei lacrimi...

To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing.

Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.

Ce s? mai cauÅ£i printre muritori când tu cânÅ£i din org? ÅŸi ei din fluier?

An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

There are no solutions, only cowardice masquerading as such.

Extraordinary and null—these two adjectives apply to the sexual act, and, consequently, to everything resulting from it, to life first of all.

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

A harmonious being cannot believe in God. Saints, criminals, and paupers have launched him, making him available to all unhappy people.

We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.

Death is the solidest thing life has invented so far

Exist? idei care au oarece greutate doar dac? avem bunul-gust de a nu le aprofunda; de îndat? ce vrem s? intr?m în detalii, s? le explic?m, s? le justific?m, ele se n?ruie ÅŸi îÅŸi dezv?luie neantul.

It takes an enormous humility to die. The strange thing is that everyone turns out to have it!

Toate starile extreme sunt derivate ale vietii prin care ea se apara de ea insasi.