Quotes About Contradiction

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

Nature can counsel nothing but crime.

Naisten pieksämisen välttämättömyydestä. Ihminen voi kurittaa niitä joita rakastaa. Kuten lapsiaan. Mutta samalla tuottaa itselleen sen kivun että joutuu halveksimaan rakkaitaan.

Es ist etwas Berauschendes am schlechten Geschmack, nämlich das aristokratische Vergnügen, zu mißfallen.

What falls on air yet's lighter than balloon? What betrays time yet folds into a cut? Who flutters at the sight of song then bellows into flight? What height is halved by precipice, what gorge dissolved by trill? Who telling tales upbraids a stump when prattle veils its want? Stone breaks it not, nor diamonds, yet splits with just one word: it's used for casting devils out; still, fools obey it first.

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care.

For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.

Love breaks my bones and I laugh

I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can't stand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger than the mountains.

A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I craved prostitutes, base women, because they were deadly and hard and made no personal demands. Nothing was lost when they left. Yet at the same time I yearned for a gentle, good woman, despite the overwhelming price.

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.

Everything is so sweetly awful, so continuously sweetly awful: the art of consummation: life eating life.

You're the most unknown famous man I ever met

cunt and Kant and a happy home

When women agree with me I always do the other thing

I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

Brush your teeth with gasoline. Sleep all day and climb trees at night. Be a monk and drink buckshot and beer. Hold your head under water and play the violin. Do a belly dance before pink candles. Kill your dog. Run for mayor. Live in a barrel. Break your head with a hatchet. Plant tulips in the rain. But don't write any more poetry.

the best at war finally are those who preach peace

I dislike cute cat poems but I've written one anyhow.

Life is and is not a gentle bore.

Time drunk and damp, everything burning, everything wet, everything fine.

I felt too miserable to be unhappy.

Love breaks my bone ans I Laugh.

Love breaks my bone and I Laugh.