Quotes About Contradiction

A curious contradiction which any child soon sees through occurs when his parents expect to control him when they cannot control themselves.

Nachrichtensprecher fangen stets mit 'Guten Abend' an und brauchen dann 15 Minuten, um zu erklären, dass es kein guter Abend ist.

America isn't young, you know. It's ancient and evil. With aluminum siding.

Pure has become impure, Impure has now become pure. Good has now become bad, Bad has become evil. For one to live is to die, for one to die is to live. -Kikyo

One hates a person for the same reason one loves him 

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.

It was hard, to be stripped of the cold comforts of her simple atheistic faith in middle-age. The more so as the evidence seemed to lead to the conclusion that all the religions were true, including the ones that flatly contradicted each other.

Take away the paradox from a thinker and you have a professor.

The logic in our minds had always been at odds with the logic of life itself

For the Muslims, I'm too worldly. For other groups, I'm too religious. For militants, I'm too moderate. For moderates, I'm too militant. I feel like I'm on a tightrope.

I'm handing them the American passport which signifies the exact opposite of what Islam stands for.

Todo lleva a creer que existe un cierto punto donde la vida y la muerte, lo real y lo imaginario, lo comunicable y lo incomunicable, lo alto y lo bajo cesan de ser percibidos contradictoriamente.

They despise one another, yet they flatter one another;they sant to get above another and get they bow down to one another.

You have sent a letter to me through the hand of a friend of yours, as you call him. And in your very next sentence you warn me not to discuss with him all the matters that concern you, saying that even you yourself are not accustomed to do this; in other words, you have in the same letter affirmed and denied that he is your friend.

There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.

Romantic people are not supposed to laugh, I know that much from looking at the pictures.

She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.

The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They're fond of paradox in that region.

Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

It hasn't escaped me that the object that keeps me alive is the same one that will kill me. In this way it's like love, or a certain kind of it.

Without a word she swivels, as if she's voice activated, as if she's on little oiled wheels, as if she's on top of a music box. I resent this grace of hers. I resent her meek head, bowed as if into a heavy wind. But there is no wind.

He loved her so much when he made her unhappy, or else when she made him unhappy: at these moments he scarcely knew which was which. He would pat her, standing well back as with strange dogs, stretching out his hand, saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." And he was sorry, but there was more to it: he was also gloating, congratulating himself, because he'd managed to create such an effect.

The things I believe can't all be true, though one of them must be. But I believe all of them, all three versions of Luke, at once and the same time. This contradictory way of believing seems to me, right now, the only way I can believe anything. Whatever the truth is, I will be ready for it.

For every rule there is always an exception: this too can be depended upon.