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Quotes About Contradiction

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.
~ Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive
Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?
~ J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged
Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.
~ Eileen Wilks
I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.
~ Bonnie Jo Campbell
Everything in life is gray, you know.
~ Jeannette Walls
Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.
~ Julia Sweeney
The Simple Life is not a simple life.
~ Mason Cooley
Israel is not dangerous on one hand, but on the other hand it is dangerous. Human life is just dangerous, in general.
~ Meital Dohan
Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.
~ Pema Chodron
To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.
~ William Shakespeare
Life seems complicated to me; I feel confused a lot of the time by life. I feel confused about the fact that we can be so tender as creatures to one another, and so monstrous at the same time.
~ Alison Hawthorne Deming
Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?
~ Augustus William Hare
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Some people believe that they should have two different lives, and one is what they show on TV and one is their personal life. I am not that person.
~ Bethenny Frankel
Life is everything and nothing all at once.
~ Billy Corgan
Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.
~ C. S. Lewis
It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief.
~ Christopher Pike
Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one
~ Edward Gorey
To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
~ Edward Gorey
I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.
~ Edward Gorey
We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
~ Edward O. Wilson
It's the hardest addiction of all,' said Patrick. 'Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, that deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.
~ Edward Teller
Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
~ Edward Young