Quotes About Paradox

some prophecies are fulfilled by the very actions meant to prevent them.

It seems I have a singular taste for women who threaten me.

Kiss me until I am sick of it... if you're the sickness, I suppose you can't also be the cure.

if you're the sickness, i suppose you can't also be the cure

I am kind of in control and out of control at the same time.

Si tú eres la enfermedad, supongo que no puedes ser la cura al mismo tiempo.

If your the sickness,I suppose you can't also be the cure - Carden

If you're the sickness, I suppose you can't also be the cure.

Beauty persists. Which, as truths go, complicates all we need to know.

How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?

but sometimes doing the wrong thing was also right.

things become weird and pointless if you examine them for too long.

Jasper shook his head. "You're like Jekyll and Hyde." "A gentleman in the streets and a freak in the bed," Irina gasped through her laughter.

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.

Faith and doubt both are needed — not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Fitzgerald said that the sign of genius is being able to hold two contradictory ideas in your head at the same time. But what if you hold two contradictory fears? Are you still some kind of a genius?

All these pulls on me that cancel one another out like an algebraic equation I can't solve.

Nobody is right and nobody is wrong. Only one thing is right, and that is the Truth, but nobody knows what it is. It is a thing that changes all the time, and then comes back to the same thing. -Old Yao

Pride is a curious thing--- a paradox, really. It makes great fools of some men and saves the honour of others.

The poem presents maternal love as a paradox: monstrous on the one hand and "the only fortress strong enough to trust to" on the other.

One thing that you and I have in common is that we both love me.

I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making you love them, since loving someone is so incredibly humiliating.

Other people savor the symmetry of opposites.

my very ravenousness for the exotic was self-destructive, because as soon as I seized upon the otherworldly, it joined this world and didn't count.