Quotes About Paradox

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

We like love - we love love - but perhaps its only meaning lies in its ubiquitous meaninglessness. We apprehend it, we feel it, and we think we know it, yet we cannot say what we mean by it.

Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.

It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.

That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet.

I find it amusing when you look at plastic surgeons because they don't seem to have had anything done.

It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

Utopias and dystopias can exist side by side, even in the same moment. Which one you're in depends entirely on your point of view.

It's funny: here I am, a guy who plays in one of the world's biggest classic-rock bands, and to tell you the truth, I listen to classic rock the least.

I'm a cliche.

I actually see comedy in death.

Advice is always awesome because it never makes any sense when you compare it all together. It always contradicts other advice. I love advice.

Incommensurables cannot be compared.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

If you come to the conclusion that there is no conclusion, well, that's a conclusion, too.

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.