Quotes About Paradox

You only live once, right? Well, except for Lazarus. Poor sucker, he had to die twice.

Life is and is not a gentle bore.

So rude the flowers that grow and do not grow beautiful.

You can't beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes.

I felt too miserable to be unhappy.

Tanr?m, tanr?m, çok tuhaf bir dünyada ya??yoruz, dedi. her ÅŸeyimiz var ama hiçbir ÅŸeyimiz yok.

D??ar? ç?karken kolum Bernadette'in belindeydi. Liseli bir k?z? and?r?yordu hâlâ. -uzun saçlar, ipek, hassas ve seksi dudaklar. Ä°çinde bulunduÄŸu cehennemi gözlerine bakt???nda fark edebiliyordun ancak.

What they need is everything even and smooth. Not love or hate, pleasure or pain, hope or fear, safety or danger. Nobody kissing your cheek at bedtime till you tingle with pleasure in your stomach, and nobody making you bleed. Accept one and you have to accept the other, that's the deal.

every act, object and statement that man perceives is meaningful (even "nothing") and […] the frontiers of meaning are always, momentarily, in state of collapse and paradox.

Information is that which defies expectation.

when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error.

The irony is that more data can often present less clarity.

I guess the truth is I crave humiliation. What is ironic or at least curious is that in my actual life, humiliation is the thing I most fear and I most experience. Yet I am not happy. Why?

The face of an angel, the mind of a devil, and a heart of gold.

No person is just one thing. People can be filled with light and affection and also be tortured and conniving and dishonest. Happiness can coincide with great pain. One can lead while also following, the same way one can follow while also leading

Paradoxically, a saint like [Albert] Schweitzer can give one a lot more trouble than King Leopold II, villain of unmitigated guilt, because along with doing good and saving African lives Schweitzer also managed to announce that the African was indeed his brother, but only his junior brother.

A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the same way that they would use a term like catch-22.

One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

I'm a weird mixture of being cynical but at the same time wanting to live in a world where Bigfoot lives.

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.