Quotes About Contradiction

And I felt antagonism for all these things when I was with La Maga, for we loved each other in a sort of dialectic of magnet and iron filings, attack and defense, handball and wall.

Piensa en esto: cuando te regalan un reloj te regalan un pequeño infierno florido, una cadena de rosas, un calabozo de aire.

Hablar de despertarse cuando por fin se está tan bien dormido

a la vez que se arrepentían de no haber dedicado más tiempo a sus hijos. Su empeño por sacarlos adelante hizo que se olvidaran de ellos, lo cual era una contradicción.

You can't find intimacy—you can't find home—when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.

I always hated obvious dreams like that. I still do.

The funny thing is, and speaking in hindsight, I had come to feel a certain fondness for the man. He was infuriating, yes, but his amiable manner made it impossible to dislike him. One rarely meets a person of such geniality, and I genuinely wished him no further ill. Nevertheless, I stabbed him.

but anyone who tells you it's impossible to be madly in love with two people at the same time clearly doesn't go to the theatre.

Americans are more than aware of their affluence- they almost seem to despise it at times.

Jack Simple. Though the name is ironic, because there is never anything simple about Jack.", Falling (Fade Book 2) by Kailin Gow

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

Nay, we had something worse against you: we used to think you the most impracticable people on the earth, for you were said to preach what you never practiced.

In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.

dancing with someone who is causing you pain is a bit like trying to smile while having a tooth extracted.

There's a set of people who are intrinsic oppositionists to everything Google does.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

Ironic things are interesting.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.

In the show, the whole point of the fast food - the fact that SpongeBob loves being part of the fast-food chain and that being a manager is his ultimate dream - it's ironic. It's something that most people don't think is a great thing to try to achieve.

I know it might be kind of ironic, but I like funny films and documentaries.

Life is full of ironies and absurdities.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.