Quotes About Contradiction

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

We're going to move left and right at the same time.

The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.

We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.

When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.

Truth in the heart of heresy

In a corner you condense yourself and cry- in the same corner you caress and kiss. Life is this, something different each time.

Time goes fast, the world is one paradox full of answers and questions.

the paradox of human ignorance is the most intriguing paradox of nature

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste.

Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.

Oh the ironies of life . . . They would be funny if they were not so very tragic.

A passionate Freyja was a keg of powder exploding. A tender Freyja was far more deadly.

Flaubert tells us that three things are required for happiness: stupidity, selfishness, and good health. I am, he told Morgan, an unhappy man -

loading your brain with subliminal messages.... How loathsome to turn a sadistic murder into entertainment [in the newspaper] -- and yet how hard not to read about it. What dark comedy to realize that you are scanning for descriptions of torture as you disapprove. Which of course only makes it more entertaining. But naturally I was hoping they'd report something grisly, you say to your friends, who chuckle lighthearted acknowledgment of hypocrisy.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?

I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn. Man! You