Quotes About Contradiction

Dijiste que me odiabas. - Lo sé. Necesitaba alguien a quien odiar, y eres al que más amo, por lo que eso cayó sobre ti.

The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin

Una verdad y su opuesto son los dos lados de una misma moneda.

She was neither beautiful nor ugly. Neither loving nor vicious. Neither wicked nor good. She was all of those things. We all are.

But maybe we were both wrong, and both right. It's not either or, not luck or love. Not fate or will. Maybe for double happiness, you need both.

I needed to hate someone and you're the one I love the most, so it fell on you

You could say, Oh, what a horrible time this is! and then it will go ahead and make things even more horrible. And no one will say, but these are good days, acche din! Except for the government, that is.

If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.

As a rule, man's a fool; When it's hot he wants it cool, When it's cool he wants it hot, Always wanting what is not.

All I want from a man is everything and nothing at the same but different times, sometimes and never but always.

Behold. I am an Evil Queen, and I like to cuddle.

There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.

Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?

And here in the Library, even if our outer layer is order, we have an inner heart of chaos. We read too much for it to be anything else.

do enjoy it when you get optimistically fatalistic,

Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels.

Much of Australia's history had been shaped by the contradiction that it depended intimately and comprehensively on a country which was further away that almost any other in the world. Now the dependence had slackened, the distance had diminished. The Antipodes were drifting, though where they were drifting no one knew.

Irony cleans away all those secret stains. Irony is the path that leads safely back to official realities.

Some part of me, I don't know which, contradicts the rest.

I am convinced that a person doesn't only love himself in others; he also hates himself in others.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.

Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!