Quotes About Contradiction

When a heart realized it loved was also, paradoxically, when a heart learned to fear most deeply.

Pretty, pink Barbie fucks hard and raw like an animal. Her

Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

You know, I have always hated that expression, "a blessing or a curse." As if anything in life were so neatly divisible. Let's try this: a freedom, or something worse.

Love is knowing something is true deep in your heart despite all evidence to the contrary.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't have any tattoos... but we never saw his wife.

The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time he is aware that he may be wrong. Above all, he values the intellectual independence of others too highly to want to convince them in important matters. He would much rather invite contradiction, preferably in the form of rational and disciplined criticism. He seeks not to convince but to arouse — to challenge others to form free opinions.

I am an atheist who says his prayers.

Er zijn tijden waarin je iets wat je wilt verbergen maar het beste vol in het zicht kunt zetten.

A weird artifact of the past, aiming at the future. An intrusive, constructive contradiction.

You appear infinitely generous, but you are a woman of infinite passion, in hate as well as love.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

It (proof by contradiction) is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Nici un cuvânt nu a acoperit atât de bine ca "religie" dubla semantic? a lui "pharmakon": leac ?i otrav?.

The heart is so peculiar. How light and how heavy it can feel at the same time. How light.

You know what they say. Cold hands. Warm heart," Yuji said. "Or is it the reverse?

A.J. watches Maya in her pink party dress, and he feels a vaguely familiar, slightly intolerable bubbling inside of him. He wants to laugh out loud or punch a wall. He feels drunk or at least carbonated. Insane. At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it's love. Fucking love, he thinks. What a bother.

It is strange, you think, how much people hate going to doctors, but how much they love watching shows about doctors.

That's pretty much our story: Melanie and Scarlett, Annie Oakley and Calamity Jane, the soccer moms and the vampire slayers. All of them are more complicated than they let on.

I hate and I love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it and I am in torment.