Quotes About Contradiction

I'm the shyest megalomaniac you're ever likely to meet.

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.

I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

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.

Films with a message just make me laugh.

I don't make any sense: I'm a germaphobe, but I'm really messy.

I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.

Looking back, it amuses me that people imagined that I was a very brash, fearless, redheaded young revolutionary when I was in fact a very insecure, mousy-haired, middle-aged man with a deep fear of authority.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

we are joy, but we are also pain; we are understanding, but we are also ignorance

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

For a long time we see only one side of a person's personality, because for reasons of self-preservation we do not wish to see any other, I thought, then suddenly we see all sides of their personality and are disgusted by them, I thought.

Sometimes we need someone, sometimes no one, and sometimes we need someone and no one.

Das Fürchterliche muss sein Gelächter haben!

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

Mensch, was haben wir die Luft bewegt, schrieb Micha später. Es wäre ewig so weitergegangen. Es war von vorn bis hinten zum Kotzen, aber wir haben uns prächtig amüsiert. Wir waren alle so klug, so belesen, so interessiert, aber unterm Strich war's idiotisch. Wir stürmten in die Zukunft, aber wir waren so was von gestern. Mein Gott, waren wir komisch, und wir haben es nicht einmal gemerkt. Es wäre ewig so weitergegangen, aber es ist was dazwischengekommen.

My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)

Events did not rhyme quite as he had thought.

He's the man we were in search of, that's true, and yet he's not the man we were in search of. For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted.

And the thorny crown of this sad conception was that she whom he really did prefer in a cursory way to the rest, she who knew herself to be more impassioned in nature, cleverer, more beautiful than they, was in the eyes of propriety far less worthy of him than the homelier ones whom he ignored.

People say I must be cold–natured—sexless—on account of it. But I won't have it! Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self–contained in their daily lives.

Well, if you wanted to love me, why do you blow so hot and cold? Why do you... keep tantalizing me -Angel

The chief pleasure connected with asking an opinion lies in not adopting it.