Quotes About Paradox

many extremely well-organized people have illegible handwriting

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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy.

It's odd, isn't it, why farce so often seems to get mixed up with tragedy?

It seems so awful somehow that it should be such a lovely day.

What beats me—it always does—is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.

Lord save me from the minds that are plagued by good intentions

The irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive

In fact, you could say that I became a poet by renouncing poetry.

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

L'angelo sa di essere indistruttibile. Paradossalmente, è proprio questa sua certezza che lo rende tale.

If he is comic, it is only because of the incongruity of so demure a look and so wild a heart.

That man's gaga," said Roger when they were out of hearing. "He's so far gone he's coming back.

Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

Christmas in Southern California was as much an oxymoron as jumbo shrimp.

T. S. Eliot was wrong about April being the cruelest month: it's January.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.