Quotes About Contradiction

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.

When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.

The feeling of being both trapped and free at the same time is the most mind twisting feeling of all.

Of course I contradict myself. Why else would hold things in and put the fire out?

Sometimes you go do the opposite things anyway because in actuality... The whole time you've been wanting to hear the right thing from a person that will stop you.

What is the point of our lives? There isn't any. I can't seem to decide how much horror and how much joy lies within that simple truth, but I know it is both of those things at once.

Wise men are wise yet their actions always seem otherwise to others who always think of the otherwise

I am a complicated person with a simple life.

How can one be so serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous?

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.

"Life is a beautiful denial to belief in death".

I hate you. I love you. But I am free.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed,And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds;On both his wings, one black, the other white,Bears greatest names in his wild airy flight.

Everything either this or that and oversimplified. But life was much more complicated. Life was much more than this or that, black or white. Life was grayish. "And

Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony

I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people in awhile.

It's possible to hate the filthy world and still love it with an abstract pitying love.

Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

It is with philosophy as with religion : men marvel at the absurdity of other people's tenets, while exactly parallel absurdities remain in their own.