Quotes About Paradox

Sickness leading to healing. The truth and its opposite again

I'm not sure it's possible to simultaneously love something and keep it safe. Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives.

The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin

I'm not sure it's possible to simultaneously love something and keep it safe. Loving someone is such an inherantly dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives.

When I'd looked back up at the window, the white curtain flapping in the gusty breeze, I'd felt both sadness and relief, the oppositional tug of heaviness and lightness, one lifting me up, one pushing me down. I understood then, Lulu and I had started something, something I'd always wanted, but also something I was scared of getting. Something ai wanted more of. And, also, something I wanted to get away from. The truth and its opposite.

Una verdad y su opuesto son los dos lados de una misma moneda.

She was neither beautiful nor ugly. Neither loving nor vicious. Neither wicked nor good. She was all of those things. We all are.

A veces se gana, otras se pierde. Y a veces se gana y pierde al mismo tiempo. La vida es un jodido desastre

La verdad y su opuesto son dos caras de una misma moneda.

But maybe we were both wrong, and both right. It's not either or, not luck or love. Not fate or will. Maybe for double happiness, you need both.

Sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one

En toch. 'Opgroeien in deze hemel op aarde was als leven in een plastic zak,' schreef hij. 'Er heerste een verstikkend gevoel van opsluiting, alsof je voortdurend je eigen lucht inademde. Door te veel orde en te weinig risico's werd het leven benauwd en triviaal – en dat terwijl dit een wereld van vrijheid en ongekende kansen heette te zijn.

If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.

She's beauty and she's the beast, rolled into one.

All I want from a man is everything and nothing at the same but different times, sometimes and never but always.

Have you realized that dying is the only way to truly live?

He was her boyfriend, but not really her boyfriend, even though technically he was, in fact, her boyfriend, even though he wasn't truly her boyfriend. Whatever. It made sense in her head.

There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.

do enjoy it when you get optimistically fatalistic,

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off - or pimp themselves out - as art. The simple truth is that the best exponents of the art of contemporary photography continue to produce work that fits broadly within the tradition of what Evans termed 'documentary style'.

Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly himself.

Some part of me, I don't know which, contradicts the rest.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.