Quotes About Contradiction

But the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.

I will say, I think it odd that I am loved by one for a kindness I never did, and reviled by so many for my finest act.

I am not without mercy," thundered he who was notoriously without mercy.

We are as the gods made us. Strong and weak, good and bad, cruel and kind, heroic and selfish. Know that if you would rule over the kingdom of men.

To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward, you must go back. To touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.

Much that may seem evil can be good.

My tongue lied my eyes shouted the truth.

Remember. To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.

And the vilest of men and the wickedest of women likewise may do good from time to time, for love and compassion and pity may be found in even the blackest of hearts.

Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya... dan bagian yang kelihatannya ajaib nyatanya malah yang paling kacau

He'd holler starvation in a pie shop.

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her." (Letter, 17 June 1837)

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Football combines the two worst features of American life: violence and committee meetings.

The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

I said i love you and you said i hate you

RE: Lake George from a book by Lord. That's all I know. "There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees.... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces

Guilt and fear are so intertwined that they cannot be separated. Love and guilt cannot exist simultaneously any more than love and fear can.

To live is like to love: all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.