Quotes About Paradox

In living we die, in dying we live.

Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight

Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.

That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.

The Non-Corporeal Soul increases tolerance and acceptance of the pain sensation, which paradoxically automatically reduces pain's noxiousness and intolerableness. The more room for pain, the less it hurts. For the Non-Corporeal Soul, pain and suffering are not something to flee, but a catalyst for the authentication of humanity and the generation of human kindness.

We pretend that, in a way, people who know Sparks don't know Sparks.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so much as they are posthumously venerated with music and dance.

The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.

That's the thing with 'Lost': you can put a spin on so many things.

I'm your basic atheist that believes in maybe - I'm a spiritual atheist.

The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

According to your medical checkup, you are dead.

Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.

Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

Kill him, then hug him. Men are more faithful when dead.

Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.