Quotes About Paradox

All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast, Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change, Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse, And all things change them to the contrary.

What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

Making a famine where abundance lies,   Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:

Love's night is noon.

A nacido lo único que amo de lo único que odio! ¡Demasiado temprano te encontré sin conocerte y demasiado tarde te conozco!

You gotta be cruel to be kind.

A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

What are these, So withered, and so wild in their attire, That look not like th'inhabitants o'th' earth And yet are on't? - Live you, or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.

The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason. King Lear: Because they are not eight? Fool: Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool.

Merely, thou art death's fool, For him thou labor'st by thy flight to shun, And yet run'st toward him still.

for there is no Christian, that means to be saved by believing rightly, can ever believe such impossible passages of grossness.

What's yet in this That bears the name of life? Yet in this life Lie hid moe thousand deaths; yet death we fear, That makes these odds all even.

Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I change.

As Carl Rogers, one of the founders of humanistic psychology, once noted: "The curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I change.

How strange, she thought, that she could hate and love in the same breath.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

The Government simply cannot make up their mind or they cannot get the prime minister to make up his mind. So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful for impotency. And so we go on preparing more months more years precious perhaps vital for the greatness of Britain for the locusts to eat. - Speaking in the Address in Reply debate, after giving some specific instances of Germany's war preparedness

ancient Greek saying, 'Love as if you shall hereafter hate, and hate as if you shall hereafter love.

No carece de encantos un mundo tan terrible, no carece de madrugadas que merecen un despertar.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

I am very afraid of the devil. A strange confession from the lips of an unbeliever.

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