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Quotes About Contradiction

I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
~ Catullus
If the sun warms up the rain, and the rain puts out the sun. Why does the greatest love become the greatest pain?
~ Stevie Nicks
I do not love you-except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, from waiting to not waiting for you my heart moves from the cold into the fire.
~ Pablo Neruda
I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.
~ Gwen Stefani
You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191)
~ Sherman Alexie
I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.
~ Amy Adams
When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.
~ Slavoj Zizek
Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.
~ Tanya Tucker
This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.
~ William Shakespeare
it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes-- I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible
~ Gregory Corso
It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.
~ Kiran Desai
I really love it when you get that strange combination of feelings that play against each other.
~ Stanley Donwood
I'm a Gemini, so I'm very dual. I love something and I hate it at the same time, so that probably comes out in the lyrics.
~ Victoria Legrand
I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back.
~ David Foster Wallace
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words.
~ June Jordan
It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.
~ Kenneth Branagh
Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me.
~ Mervyn Peake
I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Sometimes love don't feel like it should, you make it hurt so good.
~ John Mellencamp
Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.
~ Markus Zusak
I love you only because it's you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
~ Pablo Neruda
Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.
~ Andres Serrano
I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.
~ Leonardo Sciascia