Quotes About Paradox

they are, as a country, starving? It's yet another paradox, which is, we argue, a kind of treasure map. When you see a paradox, keep digging.

To say that in every falsehood there is a grain of truth is to treat the two like oil and water, which cannot be mixed and are only externally combined.

It was technological and black and thin and therefore Evil, but... it was also a book.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

I love deliberately badly written books.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.

Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, Jesus didn't do it the world's way. He came in and offended the world. He came in and did everything the wrong way.

If two wrongs don't make a right, then what do three wrongs make? What about four?

And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

There is something irresistibly funny about a funeral. More basically, I think the point is that beyond the deepest tragedy, there is laughter. Even in the midst of tragedy, there is always the possibility for it.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect.

Humanity as a concept is neither comic nor tragic.

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

Even in the case of a god, audiences - paradoxically - enjoy recognizing the human traits.

Before we ever had a script or anything, I was attracted to the idea of playing a character that housed within himself two opposing traits.

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.