Quotes About Paradox

IF THERE IS A GOD, GOD IS DISJUNCTION AND MADNESS.

The Paradox: how do you lose something you never had? The answer: There was another way to have. A transparent stretch of space between you. To love from a distance, through that space, more deeply, more colourfully, so it can be seen from faraway like a flag. Eventually the spave itself fills you. The air entering your body and replacing your blood, running through you. The halfßpleasant feeling of not being here.

That such a final, tragic, and awful thing is suicide can exist in the midst of remarkable beauty is one of the vastly contradictory and paradoxical aspects of life and art.

The simultaneous existence and shared residence of such opposite moods and feelings is well-illustrated by Franz Schubert's assertion that whenever he sat down to write songs of love he wrote songs of pain, and whenever he sat down to write songs of pain he wrote songs of love.

Manic-depression is a disease that both kills and gives life. Fire, by its nature, both creates and destroys.

God enjoys himself, kills, commits injustice, makes love, works, likes impossible things, just the same as I do. But, boss, I´ve said so before, and I say it again, God and the devil are one and the same thing!

Sometimes,' she said, 'at special moments like that, people feel a pain alongside their happiness

So, let me get this straight, he said to me. You save my ass and you're a loser. I stick up for you because of it and I'm a hero. How does that work? I don't know. But it's so sweet.

He looked like a Yanni fan at an Iron Maiden Concert.

If asked whether she believed in such things herself, she'd say, "I don't not believe.

Year after year On the monkey's face A monkey face

In year three, he became two years old, and so on. So this year, nine hundred and ninety-seven, he becomes nine hundred and ninety-six.

He was the richest man in the world, yet he was always broke.

Hell of a life. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Puts a man in one confounded bind, I'd say." McMurphy

Hell of a life. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Puts a man in one confounded bind, I'd say.

Todo sucede como si de un modo deliberado nos estuvièramos pelliscando dolorosamente a nosotros mismos y pretendièramos, al mismo tiempo, que no es asì.

continuously horrific hell permeated by a constantly perfect heaven.

In understandably wishing to increase freedom and liberty, it paradoxically left massive road kill everywhere on the highway to rational heaven.

They most definitely and strongly believed that it is universally true that there is no universal truth.

It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.

To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention.

They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive.

Your fear of becoming a cliche is what turns you into one. If you remove the fear, we are all really walking contradictions, hypocrites and paradoxical cliches