Quotes About Paradox

You need to accept the fact that you will often do exactly the opposite of what you think is right. You need to accept that you're going to do that and still love yourself.

If I were to kiss you then go to hell, I would. So then I can brag with the devils I saw heaven without ever entering it.

I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.

What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved

In my crazy world, above all others...you were the only one who was the ugliest. And you were the only one...who was the most beautiful.... This is the unspoken truth.

In God's garden even the weeds are beautiful.In my garden, I've only got weeds. I think they're a nuisance.

How can the most cruel and despicable create something as breathtaking beautiful as this?

Love is bitter, death is sweet.

Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.

Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.

It astounds me that out of all the flowers in the garden, the rose would fall in love with the thorn.

paradox—if you want more security, you have to pay for it with less freedom.

He had what we often lack — the maturity to see that faith isn't something you either have or don't have, but something that ebbs and flows in the life and soul of every individual. Doubt isn't the opposite of faith. It is an element of faith. Where there is absolute certainty, there can be no room for faith.

A mecânica quântica é implacavelmente eficiente; explica aquilo que vemos, mas impede-vos de ver a explicação.

If you time-travel to the past, you can't change it any more than you can change the value of pi. If you travel to the past, you are, will be, and always were part of the past, the very same past that leads to your traveling to it.

Nature does weird things. It lives on the edge. But it is careful to bob and weave from the fatal punch of logical paradox.

You know, for a pacifist, you sure beg to get stabbed a lot

Christ, I walk through an inferno unscatched, then singe my ass on the flight back. [...] You guys are the ... the heart and brain of the Great Machine. Yeah? Then you're the inflamed anus. You're not the brain, by the way.

Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess. And everything awful used to be something good.

The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement, but the opposite of a great truth may be another great truth.

I was almost unimaginably vague, not because I was stupid, but because nothing really mattered to me. This is an enormous paradox, because everything mattered to me, far too much; I made a mountain out of every molehill, and that was my main problem... I might have seemed indifferent, but nothing could have been further from the truth and I knew it.

Absurdity, only you are pure.

the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?