Quotes About Paradox

The splendour & the lose grew all the same, Sire.

Both are driven to cover up their deep sense of self-rupture, the hole in their soul. They may cover up in ways that look polar opposite, but each is still driven by neurotic shame. In fact, the most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat, the righteous and the wretched, the powerful and the pathetic.

What third alternative?" Said Chang with the dream-like air of a man who finds himself doing the impossible. "They gave it to us," said the Machine.

The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for. So if we pay for nothing, we get everything.

People are funny. They want a place in the front of the bus, the back of the church, and the middle of the road. Tell a man there are 300 billion stars, and he will believe you. Tell him that a bench has just been painted, and he has to touch it to be sure.

Thus she abides; her Towers forever rising, forever vanishing. Never or Always.

It's really complicated to make something simple but very simple to make something complicated.

I'm like a star burst - a juicy contradiction. I'm hard to figure out, but when you get to my center you're suprised. It's not what you thought it would be.

I hate you but I still love you. It's like I want to throw you off a cliff then rush down to save you.

Love is hard to understand, impossible to live with yet so miserable to live without. I have loved and have been loved. Sadly, though, never at the same time.

Somehow, you are both the best and the worst thing that has happened to me.

Some how you are both the best and worst thing that has ever happened to me.

I don't think I ever felt that good and that bad at the same time in my life.

It's kind of ironic that in life the person that brings out the best in you and makes you strong, is actually your weakness.

Wanting you to love me is like wanting a snow in a summer.

Happy final birthday according to North Korea.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Fighting for peace is like f***ing for virginity.

Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)

Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

Why is it that the beautiful things are entwined more deeply with death than with life?