Quotes About Paradox

Love is bitter, death is sweet.

The bottom of the world is gold and the world is upside down.

My philosophy is that you can't explain the world. It's too big and it's too crazy and sometimes it's funny and most of the time it's... strange.

Ripples in the upside-down lake of the void, is what I should have said. The bottom of the world is gold and the world is upside down.

Trouble is, what would I do with her once I won her?- it's like winning an angel in hell and you are then entitled to go down with her to where it's worse or maybe there'll be light, some, down there, maybe it's me's crazy-

He is the antithesis of Voltaire, the child of Leibniz.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame.

At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering.

And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

I'm kind of odd; I'm a technophobe who isn't a technophobe. I'm afraid of new things, but eventually I love them. That happened with Twitter.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.

No, I don't think I'll ever get any stalkers, as I'm the stalker type myself.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Florida is a strange place: hot, beautiful, ugly. I love it here, and how nothing makes sense but still, somehow, there is a rhythm.

There's a paradox with self-improvement, and it is this: the ultimate goal of all self-improvement is to reach the point where you no longer feel the need to improve yourself.

Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that made them beautiful are the same forces that will ultimately destroy them.

An environment is precisely something one is unable to point to yet is strangely there nonetheless.

It's an unbelievable, absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day without knowing which one will be our last.

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.