Quotes About Contradiction

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?

Je suis un être de dialogue ; tout en moi combat et se contredit. Les Mémoires ne sont jamais qu'à demi sincères, si grand que soit le souci de vérité : tout est toujours plus compliqué qu'on ne le dit. Peut-être même approche-t-on de plus près la vérité dans le roman.

If this was happiness, I know that I wanted to hold it like one wants in vain to hold running water in joined hands. But I was already feeling alongside this happiness something other than happiness which was covering my love like the coloring of autumn.

I always see, almost simultaneously, the two sides of each idea, and the emotion is always polarized in me.

I think he must have made my mother very unhappy, and yet he loved her—that is, if he ever really loved anyone.

Books—all books—are complicated things, muttering at us in different contradictory voices, refusing to stay the same when we go back to them. Tying them down too much robs of them of the magic.

Either Less is an asshole, or the heart is a capricious thing.

There is no contradiction between loving someone and feeling burdened by that person; indeed, love tends to magnify the burden.

I am a deeply superficial person.

Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said.

He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step.

She wasn't sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.

She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.

In theory Vera liked strong women; in practice they often irritated her.

She was always kind of sad, even when she smiled.

The truth is that most of our modern values are antithetical to the specific teachings of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. And where we do find these values expressed in our holy books, they are almost never best expressed there.

I was used to hiding magazines inside my Bible so I'd have something to read during Father's sermons. I never would have dreamed that someday I'd be doing it the other way around.

John the Baptist wasn't Catholic. He was the very first Baptist—everybody knows that." Sarah shook her head. "They called him 'the Baptist' because he baptized people, silly." I tapped my fingers on the table. "He swore off women, refused decent food and clothing, and was always yelling at people to repent. If that isn't Baptist, I don't know what is.

To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it

Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed but little from the indifferentism …

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

APODICTICAL  (APODI'CTICAL)   adj.[from    evident truth; demonstration.]Demonstrative; evident beyond contradiction. Holding an apodictical knowledge, and an assured knowledge of it; verily, to persuade their apprehensions otherwise, were to make Euclid believe, that there were more than one centre in

ANTIPHRASIS  (ANTI'PHRASIS)   n.s.[from    against, and uq  a form of speech.]The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning. You now find no cause to repent, that you never dipt your hands in the bloody high courts of justice, so called only by antiphrasis.South'sDedication to hisSermons.