Quotes About Paradox

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.

I love humanity but I hate people.

Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it.

I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.

Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.

Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.

I'm filthy stinking rich - well, two out of three ain't bad.

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.

Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

I always remember someone saying how ironic it is that Christmas is celebrated in the home but we're celebrating the birth of a homeless child.

It was a total catch-22, like a contradiction in terms.

Suddenly life feels fast and slow at the same time. It's like being in two places at once.

It's my gift and my curse.

We don't serve time travelers here. A time traveler walks into the bar.

Once my mother had asked me, "Is it better to burn to death or freeze to death?" and the right answer was freeze because at the very end there was a trick that made you think you were warm.

The prime minister is a Labour Tory. There's a mosque at the end of your street and a French restaurant next door. We are neither in nor out of Europe. We are famous for our beer but we drink in wine bars. We are not a colonial power but we still have a commonwealth. We are jealous of the rich but we buy into the Hello! celebrity culture. We live in a United Kingdom that's no longer united. We are muddled.

Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.

God is either good and not all powerful, or He is powerful and not all good. You can't have it both ways.