Quotes About Paradox

El vino convierte al sabio en necio, y al necio en sabio.

Como nos enseña Freud, la mujer desea lo contrario de lo que piensa o declara

Dios se compadece primero de los hijos de puta. Hasta en eso la vida era una grandísima zorra.

When he noticed that the patient was awake, he smiled at him. Are you a God or the devil? the dying man once asked him. The stranger shrugged and thought about it. A bit of both, he answered at last. In principle, I'm an atheist, the patient informed him. Although in fact I have a lot of faith, Like so many. Rest now, my friend. Heaven can wait. And hell is too small for you.

We can even believe that we don't believe in anything, which is the greatest credulity of them all.

it was fast becoming the best pair of gloves ever given to someone with no hands.

A great paradox of contemporary therapy is that it cracks open so many crises of the mind that can't be healed with the mind.

I know, but what is it all about? People loose and at the same time caught. Caught and loose. All these people and you don't know what joins them up. There's bound to be some sort of reason and connection. Yet somehow I can't seem to name it. I don't know." "If you did you would be God," said Berenice. "Didn't you know that?

Yet at the same time you almost might use the word loose instead of caught. Although they are two opposite words.

I hate and I love Why do I, you ask ? I don't know, but it's happening and it hurts

I hate and I love. Why do I do this, you may ask? I do not know, but I feel it, and I am tortured.

I hate & love. And if you should ask how I do both, I couldn't say; but I feel it , and it shivers me.

Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive.

Holly's theory about the army, Sharon explained. And what is it? Denise asked, intrigued. Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

This is my one and only life, and it is a great and terrible and short and endless thing, and none of us come out of it alive

Warring for peace is like screwing for virginity!!

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Within every bad thing I see good, and, likewise, within every good thing I see bad, however impossible it is to understand it or see it at the time. As humans we are the epitome of life; in life there is always balance. Life and death,male and female, good and bad, beautiful and ugly, win and lose, love and hate. Lost and found.

That is who I am supposed to be, how I am identified and recorded for all time, but I am neither of those things

the more you try to simplify things, the more you complicate them.

Why do bad things happen to good people? Within every bad thing I see good, and, likewise, within every good thing I see bad, however impossible it is to understand it or see it at the time.

Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.

You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you ; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?

To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.