Quotes About Paradox

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.

Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.

Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That's why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.

You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.

But…but you can't treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you can't say yes please, I'll have some of the Celestial Paradise and a helping of the Divine Plan but go easy on the kneeling and none of the Prohibition of Images, they give me wind. Its table d´hôte or nothing, otherwise…well, it would be silly.

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

He'd wanted changes. It was just that he'd wanted things to stay the same, as well.

Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.

Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time.

Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.

The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side.

It is very easy to get ridiculously confused about the tenses of time travel, but most things can be resolved by a sufficiently large ego.

The complete reverse was so often the case that he had come to think of it as a kind of natural law.

Imagine every moment being at one and the same time a distant memory and a nasty surprise and you'll see what I mean.

He was hanged, and then much later they put up a statue to him, which tells you more about people than you might wish to know.

He was stupid, yes, in the particular way that very clever people can be stupid.

He was, in fact, dead. It would be hard to be deader without special training.

Well, Hell was worse, of course, by definition. But Crowley remembered what Heaven was like, and it had quite a few things in common with Hell. You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell.

She managed to come up with the kind of predictions that you can only understand after the thing has happened, said Anathema. Like 'Do Notte Buye Betamacks.' That was a prediction for 1972.

their grotesque angels