Quotes About Paradox

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

Go figure that. Joseph Morelli with a house, a dog, a steady job, and an SUV. And on odd days of the month he woke up wanting to marry me. It turns out want to marry him on even days of the month, so to date we've been spared commitment.

What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?

Love humiliates you, hatred cradles you.

Love humiliates you, but hatred cradles you.

No one considered that a key might lock as well as unlock.

Trump is unloved in his own house. A figure of ridicule, a theatrical creation, he is almost sympathetic. He was told by the greedy and the outright stupid that he would make a swell president. The Liar's Paradox has spun out of control, with liars lying to a liar who believed the lie. What would that be called? Fox News, I think.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.

I write unreliable narrators because - paradoxically - they're the most honest, true-to-life kind there is.

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Florida is a most unusual place. It can feel at once stifling and like anything is possible there.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

If the world were a logical place men would ride sidesaddle.

I know the nature of women When you want to they don't want to And when you don't want to they desire exceedingly.

My vigour vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.