Quotes About Contradiction

The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.

I don't like you, but I love you.

God is love, the bishops tell. Yes, I know, But love is hell.

Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It's sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it's actually very rough when you experience it.*

One may like the love and despise the lover.

We must love, as looking one day to hate.

O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.

Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and deny me continually.

She loved him, though not at this particular moment.

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

There are people that are vegetarians that love bacon.

With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is.

Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban, block and condemn it.

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.

I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making you love them, since loving someone is so incredibly humiliating.

Love will break your heart,[...] but love can also mend it. Not many things in life are both the cause and the cure.

When love brings so much joy, why must it bring so much pain?

I felt so full of love for everything. But at the same time, I felt so hung out there to dry, like nobody could ever understand. I felt so alone in this world, and so loved at the same time.

I can neither return your love nor dismiss it.

Tony Morrison said, 'Can't I love what I criticize, criticize what I love.'

Love is such a confusing word. You think I'm joking but I'm not.