Quotes About Paradox

A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.

It has always been a mystery to me, Annabelle, how beauty and anguish can share the same moment.

Everyone hates him. Me – I think I can see the sun shine when he bends over.

The good times are killing me

I was in heaven, I was in hell, Believe in neither, But fear them as well.

It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class—in this case an evening class on corporate identity and product branding—but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does. Saeed

Look, unless you're writing one, a self-help book is an oxymoron.

a white man had indeed shot a dark man, but also that the dark man and the white man were the same.

I do not think that less is necessarily more. But I don't think that more is necessarily more either.

I found it ironic; children and the elderly were meant to be sent away from impending battles, but in our case it was the fittest and brightest who were leaving, those who in the past would have been most expected to remain.

Ä°nsan?n doÄŸuÅŸunu görmekten herkes kaçar ama ölümünü görmeye hep koÅŸa koÅŸa gideriz. Ä°nsan? öldürmek için gün ?????nda, geniÅŸ meydanlar arar?z ama onu yaratmak için karanl?k köÅŸelere gizleniriz.

It is an ill wind that does not blow some good. For example, it is well to be born in a decadent age; for one may obtain a reputation for virtue at a bargain price.

Being dead's a drug', he says, 'you'll get hooked on it.

Fortresses may or may not be useful according to the times; if they do good in one way, they do harm in another.

Was true love when you wanted to slap someone and kiss him madly at the same time?

There is a phrase Argentines use to describe the paradox of wide-eyed knowing and eyes-closed terror that was the dominant state of mind in those years: "We did not know what nobody could deny.

An essential paradox of the female condition is that for women to really be free, we have to understand the ways in which nature designed us to be attached to and dependent upon love, connection, intimacy, and the right kind of Eros in the hands of the right kind of man or woman.

Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?

It was the first time anyone had found a virus of a virus. It was yet another thing that ought not to exist.

We don't need anyone to teach us sorcery, because there is really nothing to learn. What we need is a teacher to convince us that there is incalculable power at our fingertips. What a strange paradox!

But we must know first that our acts are useless and yet we must proceed as if we didn't know it. That's a sorcerer's controlled folly.

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith