Quotes About Paradox

Se ser neurótico é querer ao mesmo tempo duas coisas mutuamente excludentes, então eu sou uma baita de uma neurótica. Vou ficar correndo de uma coisa mutuamente excludente pra outra pelo resto da minha vida.

Si ser neurótica es decir dos cosas mutuamente excluyentes en el mismo momento, entonces soy endemoniadamente neurótica. Estaré volando de una a otra cosa mutuamente excluyente durante el resto de mi vida

My enemies are those who care about me most.

They had an efficiency, a great beauty, And were extravagant, like torture.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.

but set down/This set down/This: were we led all that way for/ Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly,/We had evidence and no doubt./I had seen birth and death,/But had thought they were different; this Birth was/Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.

Pain is the opposite of joy But joy is a kind of pain

You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Two reeds drink from the same stream. One is hollow, the other is sugarcane. —MOROCCAN PROVERB

Confound you, what are you? A daisy crossed with a razor-some kind of hybrid of Heaven and the Pit?

Mercurio's profound graveness tottered on the brink of extreme uncontrolled hilarity.

And it's a hell of a lot easier to believe in a nudist than a werewolf

Je voulais vous faire sourire, et mes larmes ont coulé. Je voulais vous faire oublier, et la mort m'a rattrapé. Je voulais vous offrir ce que vous m'avez donné. On ne sait jamais n'est-ce pas ? Il se peut qu'un bien soit notre mal, et qu'un mal soit notre bien. Sait-on jamais ? Je vous offre donc ce sourire, louange à l'Unique de toutes les façons, et que la Paix vous accompagne, et Sa lumière, et Sa chaleur.

There were things here too that could not be described as either the one or the other - but they belonged to such a place and one had to accept everything as it came

What falls but never breaks; what breaks but never falls?

touching God might be like touching a thick shaft of lightning, but one filled with pleasure. It might very well kill you, she said, but at least you'd die with a smile on your face.

It's amazing how something can be blue and yet absolutely colorless.

If he really didn't want women to call him at the office, he probably shouldn't have told them that. It's like when somebody says. 'whatever you do, don't open that door.' Of course that's the door you're going to open.

Ce qui commence par : "Je me hâtais de déplaire exprès, par crainte de déplaire naturellement" (Mauriac) continue par : "Je me hâtais d'échouer exprès,par crainte d'échouer naturellement", et pourrait se terminer un jour par : "Je me hâtais de mourir exprès,par crainte de mourir naturellement" (une phrase d'excellent comique).

The beautiful must be incongruous.

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

Sintió una especie de ternura rencorosa, algo tan contradictorio que debía ser la verdad misma.