Quotes About Contradiction

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work.

Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.

It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

Atlanta is not the South.

When I was in South Korea, the books that I read about Americans were actually Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama. If this country actually oppresses people and enslaves the people, how are those two women billionaires?

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

All the Southerners think we're Yanks, and all the Yanks think we're Southerners, and all the Midwesterners think we're East. Everybody's always wrong about Louisville. That's kind of why I love it so much.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

The thing with me is, I'm both untidy and I hate mess. But I'm not untidy in communal spaces, like living rooms. My bedroom is havoc.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...

Nothing in my life has ever felt so good yet it hurt so achingly bad.

Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?

Just like the devil is against God. I think the so called love is against success. Tryna slow people's lives.

Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I'm lying down and horizontally if I'm running

...the magic of love runs at cross purposes with the rhythm of living...

...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...

What a woman tells her lover in desireshould be written out on air & running water.

I hate pretty much everyone almost as much as I love myself.

You're a terrible woman Nox, but by the stars I love you beyond words themselves,

Turned out, monsters were capable of love after all. But it didn't mean they should.