Quotes About Contradiction

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

It was the first time that we had sort of articulated our major problem. She wanted to die and I wanted her to live and we were enemies who loved each other.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.

The color red is associated with romance and blood, but not at the same time.

The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

If, as many people believe today, Ted Bundy took lives, he also saved lives. I know he did, because I was there when he did it.

And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

When one of you wanted one life, and the other wanted something completely different, there was a technical term for that: irreconcilable.

there is always a but in this imperfect world!

If she were more perfect she would be less interesting

I don't know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman--your nature must be half human, half angelic. Such goodness overawes me; I don't know what to make of it.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

First, there's the rose— the queen of the flowers; she's so beautiful and her fragrance is so intoxicating that it goes to everyone's head, most of all her own. The rose is beautiful, sweet-smelling and elegant, but if things aren't going her way, she shows her thorns. She's like a spoiled child—beautiful, elegant and seemingly nice as can be, but if you touch her or talk to someone else so that she's no longer the center of attention, out come her claws.

Und dann schlafe ich mit dem verrückten Gefühl ein, anders sein zu wollen als zu sein oder anders zu sein als zu wollen oder vielleicht auch anders zu tun als zu wollen oder zu sein.

The world has an awful beauty. This is a chaotic place, humanity is a chaotic place, and I am a chaotic place.

Death is...usually doable, astonishing but plain.

There's a precise moment when we reject contradiction. This moment of choice is the lie we will live by. What is dearest to us is often dearer to us than truth.

I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.

I am such a bad girl, she thought. Yet...

After all, these were blood drinkers, beings who spoke gently, liked poetry, and yet killed mortals all the time.

I think to be this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.

I don't know how to be bad at being bad.