Quotes About Paradox

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Life is so ironic to understand fully, it takes sadness to know what is happiness. noise to distinguish silent and a broken heart to find true love.

Flying is simple; just throw yourself on the ground and miss.

Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.

Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't

Life is a contradiction at times - as are we.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Life seems to be a choice between two wrong answers.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Death is life in reverse.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix

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

My day starts backwards...I wake up tired and I go to bed wide awake.

We All Want To Be Different Which Makes Us All The Same.

Actually to recognise someone, more still, to identify him you have been unable to recognise, is to think two contradictory things under a single denomination, it is the same as saying that he who was here, the being we recall, is here no longer and that he who is here is one we never knew, that means piercing a mystery almost as troubling as that of death of which it is indeed the preface and the herald.

it has indeed been said that the highest praise of God consists in the denial of Him by the atheist, who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

But already there is the same fault, that paradox of stringing together fine-sounding words and only afterwards troubling about what they mean.

How paradoxical it is to seek in reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory, which must inevitably lose the charm that comes to them from memory itself and from their not being apprehended by the senses. The reality that I had known no longer existed.

Il n'y a pas une idée qui ne porte en elle sa réfutation possible, un mot, le mot contraire.

For the very ones who are right, like Françoise, have also to be wrong, so that Justice becomes an impossibility

Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you.