Quotes About Paradox

She wondered why things always took longer than you wanted them to take, unless you wanted them to take a lot longer—then they didn't take nearly long enough. Time sucked.

Never in my life have I known anyone who has such a basic dislike of people, yet has such unstinting and bottomless compassion for them.

angled, straddled

See? It's senseless. How can you lose an hour? Where does it go? Can someone else find it? Does it get reported to the Lost Time Division?

Diese Haltung zur Opferung von Menschenleben ist seltsam. Militärbefehlshaber überlegen nicht zweimal, wenn sie Soldaten in die Schlacht schicken und dabei genau wissen, dass viele von ihnen sterben werden. [...] Andererseits verbietet es der Offiziersethos, einzelne Soldaten auszuwählen und ihnen zu befehlen, ihr Leben zu opfern [...]. Und doch - und das ist noch paradoxer - werden Soldaten, die eine solche Tat aus eigener Initiative vollbringen, als Helden betrachtet.

We partake of the ideal but we also make poo.

la razón no es más que una enorme tautología.

For that is surely what a woman wants: to be courted, wooed, persuaded, won! Even when she surrenders, she wants to give herself up not frankly but in a delicious haze of confusion, resisting yet unresisting. Falling, but never an irrevocable falling. No: to fall and then come back from the fall new, remade, virginal, ready to be wooed again and to fall again. A playing with death, a play of resurrection.

from that moment in June 1973 I decided to accept the total contradiction that everything from the Big Bang to the end of time is preordained in every sense and that we are totally free to do whatever the fuck we want.

Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?

If you eliminate all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer.

You are the sweetest thug I've ever known.

Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not? - Wrath

Pigs flying. Hell freezing over. Miley planting her twerking ass in a chair and keeping it there as a public service.

If you eliminated all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer.

El tiempo es un lujo, lo creas o no —dijo. —A mí me parece una maldición.

Yeah, his being your friendly neighborhood drug lord, pimp, and enforcer really fit in with the Norman Rockwell routine. Totally.

Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not, Wrath murmured.

The clarinet in its most perfect form is a strange beast--if it is imperfect, it is also completely untamable.

Pretty girls make graves

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

Jesus was a strange hobo who walked on water—

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.