Quotes About Paradox

GÅ'upota jest bestiÄ… wyjÄ…tkowÄ…, takÄ… która nie mo?e gry??, gdy siÄ™ jÄ… ciÄ…gnie za ogon.

This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.

Why did the chicken cross the road? there already was a chicken on this side of the road.

Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig; es ist nicht einmal falsch

Will ich Vertrauen finden, da, wo es zu verschwinden weiß wie Feuer in den Brunnenquellen und der Tau an der Sonne?

Amar es sufrir. Para evitar el sufrimiento se debe no amar. Pero entonces se sufre por no amar. Luego, amar es sufrir, y no amar es sufrir. Sufrir es sufrir. Ser feliz es amar. Ser feliz es, por lo tanto, sufrir. Pero sufrir hace que uno no sea feliz. Así, para no ser feliz, se debe amar, o amar para sufrir, o sufrir de demasiada felicidad. Espero que estéis tomando nota.

You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

So then, what do you believe in? Sex and death. Two things that come once in my lifetime. But at least after death you're not nauseous.

I've always liked, someday the lamb will lay by the lion.... but it won't get much sleep.

It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction.

If I got a paper cut, that's a tragedy. If you fell down an open manhole and died, that's comedy.

Ã…Å¡mier? ma równie? swojÄ… dodatniÄ… stronÄ™ - to jedna z tych paru rzeczy, które dajÄ… siÄ™ zrobi? z równÄ… Å'atwoÅ›ciÄ…, z jakÄ… przychodzi uÅ'o?y? siÄ™ spa?.

Porque hasta cuando sabes que no puedes confiar en nadie te topas con que tienes que confiar.

No es acaso el amor una asombrosa, y a veces milagrosa, conjunción de patrañas? ¿No es exacto que menos por menos da más?

It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.

Isn't it ironic, Richard Parker? We're in hell yet still we're afraid of immortality.

and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

Unable to conceive of a God who does not regard human happiness as the be-all and end-all of creation, they cannot accept the central paradox of religious faith: that the secret of happiness lies in renouncing the right to be happy.

What nourishes me, destroys me

Quod Me Nutrit Me Destruit.