Quotes About Paradox

Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.

That no one dies of migraine seems to someone deep in an attack as an ambiguous blessing.

I suppose everything had changed and nothing had.

Why did I keep stressing what was and was not normal, when nothing about it was?

Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, paradoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age.

We must be aware of the dangers which lie in our most generous wishes," Lionel Trilling once wrote. "Some paradox of our nature leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.")

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.

Oh, muerte cruel! ¿Por qué vienes a quien no te quiere y rehuyes a los que te desean?

Nada há mais feio que dar pernas longuíssimas a ideias brevíssimas.

That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?

I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.

Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work-their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.

The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.

Lent is my favorite time of year to not be Christian.

May your Valentine's Day dinner have the romantic lighting of a stadium blackout.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent

Such a beautiful disaster.

Not all men are annoying. Some are dead.

You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.

I'm never surprised, even when I am...

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

The worst men often give the best advice.