Quotes About Paradox

Reality and love are almost contradictory for me.

Love is a negative form of hatred.

You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.

Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love.

If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.

Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks itself: this is more than it has a right to do, because literature may be one of those things which deserve to be found but not to be sought.

The French are never serious. They juggle with principles, make fun of difficulties and have been walking the tightrope of virtuosity for ten centuries. A singular nation, you know.

Living is such an absurd occupation.

It's a lot easier to blow up trains than to make them run on time. What is it that Mister Churchill used to say? "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

Everything happened exactly as I had intended it shouldn't.

Hope was such a gift and a curse all rolled into one.

What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

Odd that you could be so angry at someone and devoted to him at the same time.

Mel chuckled and reached out to rub her T-shirt covered belly. "How can something so cute and soft make such a big, scary noise?

Grief is paradoxical: you know you must let go, and yet letting go cannot happen all at once. The literature of mourning enacts that dilemma; its solace lies in the ritual of remembering the dead and then saying, There is no solace, and also, This has been going on a long time.

So a good man can be a bad Christian? I suppose so. Then a bad man, I said, can be a good Christian?

Às vezes acho que é preciso ser extremamente imbecil para ser um santo.

He won't be happy," I said happily.

É uma coisa estranha que notei com relação aos cristãos. Eles afirmam que nossos deuses não têm poder, no entanto temem às maldições feitas em nome desses deuses.

I envy your Christian God. He is three and He is one, He is dead and He is alive, He is everywhere and He is nowhere, and He demands that you worship Him, but claims nothing else is worthy of worship. There's room in those contradictions for a man to believe in anything or nothing

Mais tarde, muito mais tarde, aprendi que a alegria e o medo são exatamente a mesma coisa.

What did you want to achieve?" "Liberty, of course!" The answer was swift, but followed immediately by a deprecating smile. "Except I've learned there's no such thing." "There isn't?" "You can't have freedom and lawyers, Sharpe

I envy your Christian God. He is three and He is one, He is dead and He is alive, He is everywhere and He is nowhere, and He demands that you worship Him, but claims nothing else is worthy of worship. There's room in those contradictions for a man to believe in anything or nothing, but