Quotes About Paradox

This was too absurd, and at the same time dismayingly tempting.

I understood with sudden clarity that doing the right thing - being right - gets you nothing in this world. It's the sinners everyone loves: the flailers, the scramblers, the bumblers. There was nothing sexy about getting it right the first time.

Holding my phone, looking out at twinkling Lake Michigan, I understood with sudden clarity that doing the right thing—being right—gets you nothing in this world. It's the sinners everyone loves: the flailers, the scramblers, the bumblers. There was nothing sexy about getting it right the first time.

I am everything. I am nothing. I am powerful. I am forgotten.

I told you kid... You're not a player. You're the glass ballerina--- or the knife.

The answer to your first riddle," I told him. "If yes is no and once is never, then the number of sides a triangle has… is… two." I drew out my reply, not bothering to explain how I'd arrived at my answer

Things that appear very different on the surface are actually exactly the same at their core.

if yes is no, and once is never then how many sides does a triangle have?

If yes is no and once is never then how many sides does a triangle have? - Jameson Hawthorne

he answer to your first riddle," I told him. "If yes is no and once is never, then the number of sides a triangle has… is… two." I drew out my reply, not bothering to explain how I'd arrived at my answer

How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.

I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?

Nature est un problème inexplicable; elle existe sur un principe de destruction. Chaque être doit être l'instrument infatigable de la mort d'autrui, ou lui-même doit cesser de vivre, mais néanmoins nous célébrons le jour de notre naissance, et nous louons Dieu pour avoir saisi un tel monde.

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn. 

trn se ne uvija oko kozje krvi nego kozja krv grli trn.

I'm too happy, and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.

Life is death we're lengthy at

HOPE is a subtle glutton; He feeds upon the fair; And yet, inspected closely, What abstinence is there!

What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy

Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?

Why are we so afraid of the body? Is it because it's a mess, unpredictable, mortal, unreliable? We take pains to perfect it, to keep it healthy, but we probably wouldn't go to such extremes if we weren't scared to death to lose it. A paradox: we pretend we don't need it, that it's our minds that matter, and yet the body is the thing we can't ignore and that knocks our thinking minds flat to the floor.

Somewhere between good and bad - bits of both stuck together. Ma

Let's enjoy our misery before we say it's fun.

Ah, yes, the trusty time paradox . If I go back in time and kill my grandfather, then shall I cease to exist? I believe, as Gorben and Berndt did, that any repercussions are already being felt. We can only change the future, not the past or present. If I go back, then I have already been back. - Artemis Fowl