Quotes About Paradox

My definition of love is: Being willing to die for someone, that you yourself want to kill.

Stay with me; I want to be alone

Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.

If you try to fail but succeed, which have you done?

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

because although she is very pretty, she is also very dead, and dead trumps pretty much everything.

How messed up is it when you feel like you belong in a place that fills you with a sense of dread?

I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

A study found exercise may be bad for your health. Which means I'm not fat, I'm just morbidly over-healthed.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

Collapse begins at this paradoxical point: the reiteration of a metanarrative of heroism and innocence ceases to be essential to sustain global normative structures at the moment its use becomes ubiquitous.

There is a paradox at the core of penology, and from it derives the thousand ills and afflictions of the prison system. It is that not only the worst of the young are sent to prison, but the best—that is, the proudest, the bravest, the most daring, the most enterprising and the most undefeated of the poor. There starts the horror. —Norman Mailer's introduction to In the Belly of the Beast by Jack Henry Abbott No one knows what it's like to be the bad man.

Bonhoeffer and Luther draw on Christ's paradox of gaining one's life by losing it. So we come to the ultimate paradox: by service—and ultimately, by sacrifice—we are free, we are happy, we live the good life. True freedom is only freedom in Christ. True freedom, as Luther points out, is found in serving others. Bonhoeffer echoes that notion.

People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary terms, it is as likely to do us in as to help us along.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

People adjust to their circumstances. People subject to the most barbaric cruelty can still delight in a baby's laugh or feel moments of perfect contentment lying on a grassy hillside in the sun. There is something beautiful in our capacity to accommodate atrocity, even if it can also be our undoing.

And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradox For he is everything and nothing Hero and fool Potent, helpless And with one word of truth or treachery He will save or damn the earth Because he is mad and sane Cold and passionate Lost and found

Digitalur är symptomatiska för vår motsägelsefulla tidsålder. De ger oss exakt tid på nanosekunden, men ingen kontext: en oändlig följd av "Du är här"-pilar, men ingen karta.

The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred.

Life is a joke. Unfortunately, the joke is on us.

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography