Quotes About Paradox

Marriage...we cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Marriage is a contradiction in terms of endearment.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil

The two terms are mutually exclusive. Like military intelligence. An oxymoron, emphasis on moron.

The great paradox of automation is that the desire to eliminate human labor always generates new tasks for humans.

When industries fixate on automating jobs away, they paradoxically spoke demand for ghost work, shredding the social contract between employer and worker in their wake.

Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground. That the featherweight survive the massive, that this reversal of fortune takes place among us — that is what haunts me. I don't know what it means.

If there is any irreverence in my own work, I hope it is the irreverence I bear in mistrusting my own sincere self, which then sincerely mistrusts the irreverent me. If there is a bottom to this, I think it is a life's work.

Hope wears a strange raincoat and straps a gun inside.

I threw up again that night, half-afraid that my eyeballs would explode. But it was, by far, more important that I get rid of dinner. Of course, by then, throwing up was the only way I knew how to deal with fear. That paradox would begin to run my life: to know that what you are doing is hurting you, maybe killing you, and to be afraid of that fact--but to cling to the idea that this will save you, it will, in the end, make things okay.

Step One is, paradoxically, both a crushing end and a beginning.

It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.

Just seems more complicated than other people. This complex human being may be at once "more naive and more knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and rigorous logic. He or she is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier, and yet adamantly saner than the average person.

Zen is a double-edged sword, killing words and thoughts, yet at the same time, giving them life. Although beyond human intellect and philosophy, Zen is their root and source.

Some studies actually showed that that Russian drinkers lived longer than non-drinkers. [Michelle Parsons] suggested an explanation for the apparent vodka paradox: for what it is worth, alcohol may help people adapt to realities that otherwise make them want to curl up and die. Parsons, who called her book "Dying Unneeded", argued that Russians were dying early because they had nothing and no one to live for.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

By being high, you become low and by being low, you become high. By being humble, you become high.

Yo la amaba, e incluso amándola al revés, no llegaba a detestarla.

The most beautiful roses sometimes have the sharpest thorns.

Qué raro es que a veces deseas algo, como ver la nieve, y al día siguiente deseas que desparezca, ¿verdad?