Quotes About Paradox

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people have become no happier.

Curious how often you Humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.

Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.

It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we really want to be is killers.

I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.

The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean.

And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.

A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!

It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

It's always the people who don't want things who get them.

He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them in motion, throw everything at them until they reveal themselves further.

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

Don't forget to turn your clocks back today if you don't want your clocks to be set to the right time.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

The simple ones aren't simple. The broken ones aren't broken. They are rearranged.

If there was neither a time before nor a time after, then was not the moment of creation eternal and yet for ever instantaneous?