Quotes About Paradox

Eve was sure he was saluted at birth by the obstetrician instead of spanked.

was how he imagined a rose garden would smell if somebody covered it with fertilizer, doused it with gasoline, set it on fire, and then put out the flames with buckets of horse piss.

It's lovely. I hate it.

We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day.

The paradox of our modern world is that we know so much about so many things, about how things work, but so little about who we are as persons, why we are.

I remember he was asking me for advice and I was giving it to him. He's always done the exact opposite of what I've said, which I think is fundamentally sound.

The end of THE END is the best place to begin THE END, because if you read THE END from the beginning of the beginning of THE END to the end of the end of THE END, you will arrive at the end.

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible....

Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of "systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, cyst-susceptible sister," which is easier done than said.

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.

How could someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Love, it seems, fits perfectly into no one of these molds for it may be all at once; a state of ecstasy, a state of joy, a state of disillusionment, a rational state or an irrational state

They say a deaf man heard a dumb man talking about a blind man who saw a cripple walking the tightrope." He

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Maureen had been born with the face of a gargoyle on the body of a sylph.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

I can do a score of things that can't be done. I can find a thing I can't see, and I see a thing I can't find. The first is time, and the second is a spot before my eyes. I can feel a thing I cannot touch, and I touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, and the second is your heart. What would you do without me? Say "nothing".

I would be the last person to say that madness is not a solution.

There is no one as intolerant as an open minded liberal.

She was deep in the happiness of such misery, or the misery of such happiness, instantly.

It didn't occur to us. We had swum in the ocean of religion all our lives and not gotten wet.