Quotes About Contradiction

God is love? Not bloody likely.

Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time.

My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.

Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.

It's so ironic that life is all about love, yet we live most of it either searching, never finding, or messing it up.

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail

I love bowling almost as much as I love not bowling.

I hate people but I love gatherings.

Well, you are dying—on purpose." "And you're pregnant—by accident." "A fine pair we make," she says.

There is irony, and then there's my life.

it would seem that these super-religious ascetics would be extremely so. But the witness of everyone who visited them for counsel was the opposite. They were some of the

Reality, as frightening as it is, is very very funny.

In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.

I hate show business.

brilliantly & terribly

They can't do it without wandering down blind alleys or making contradictory or even nonsensical claims. This is partly because talking (and thinking) is often more about forgetting than about remembering.

Thus, we can clearly think or say one thing and do another.

In the West at least, millennials are living through a unique historical situation. They are, I believe, the first generation to have been so thoroughly taught two seemingly contradictory ideas about morality, simultaneously—at their schools, colleges and universities, by many in my own generation. This contradiction has left them at times disoriented and uncertain, without guidance and, more tragically, deprived of riches they don't even know exist.

They were mistaken if they thought he did not kill her because he loved her too much. At that moment Nacib did not love her. He did not hate her either. He beat her mechanically, as if to relax his nerves from the tension of suffering. He was empty like a vase without a flower. He felt a pain in his heart as if someone were slowly pushing a dagger into it. He felt neither hate nor love. Just pain" (366).