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Quotes About Paradox

There's too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that's what heaven is---- a place where everybody's happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I really love it when you get that strange combination of feelings that play against each other.
~ Stanley Donwood
It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.
~ Kenneth Branagh
If love eats the donut, does time eat the hole?
~ Tom Robbins
Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]
~ Martial
The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.
~ Norman Mailer
Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.
~ Andres Serrano
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love: It will kill you and save you, both
~ Lauren Oliver
If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.
~ Matt Groening
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
~ Anne Carson
I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.
~ Ana Gasteyer
And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion.
~ Stephenie Meyer
As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
~ Budd Schulberg
Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.
~ Cassandra Clare
I hate people but I love gatherings.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
There is irony, and then there's my life.
~ Jonathan Tropper
I feel that my own life is especially sealed with this great sign . . . because like Jonah himself I find myself traveling toward my destiny in the belly of a paradox.
~ Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
it would seem that these super-religious ascetics would be extremely so. But the witness of everyone who visited them for counsel was the opposite. They were some of the
~ Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Verliefdheid rust op het roekeloze besluit verliefd te worden. Met zijn besluit had Simon de kwelling over zichzelf afgeroepen. De welling was masochistisch en theatraal. Het was gezocht ongeluk, zelfgeschapen wanhoop, ijdele parodie. Allemaal waar. Maar wat het ook mocht zijn, de kwelling werd er niet minder op.
~ Joost Zwagerman
Verliefdheid rust op het roekeloze besluit om verliefd te worden. Met zijn besluit had Simon de kwelling over zichzelf afgeroepen. De kwelling was masochistisch en theatraal. Het was gezocht ongeluk, zelfgeschapen wanhoop, ijdele parodie. Allemaal waar. Maar wat het ook mocht zijn, de kwelling werd er niet minder om.
~ Joost Zwagerman
Verliefdheid rust op het roekeloze besluit verliefd te worden. Met zijn besluit had Simon de kwelling over zichzelf afgeroepen. De kwelling was masochistisch en theatraal. Het was gezocht ongeluk, zelfgeschapen wanhoop, ijdele parodie. Allemaal waar. Maar wat het ook mocht zijn, de kwelling werd er niet minder om.
~ Joost Zwagerman
Now, strict logicians regard self-deception as an impossibility. They cannot understand how it is possible for a person to believe one thing and its opposite simultaneously. Logicians are not psychologists,
~ Jordan B. Peterson
brilliantly & terribly
~ Jordan B. Peterson