Quotes About Contradiction

People often do the incomprehensible. It's what makes them so fascinating.

Edison, Oedipus, platypus. Whatever.

Never in my life have I known anyone who has such a basic dislike of people, yet has such unstinting and bottomless compassion for them.

What solace are lapidary paradoxes for the loves of the body?

from that moment in June 1973 I decided to accept the total contradiction that everything from the Big Bang to the end of time is preordained in every sense and that we are totally free to do whatever the fuck we want.

Well, aren't you Mother fucking Teresa

Pigs flying. Hell freezing over. Miley planting her twerking ass in a chair and keeping it there as a public service.

my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.

a choleric, red-faced, pudgy hater of everything, who could turn on the warmest and most charming smile in the world when real life confronted him sweetly in the night.

At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering.

And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Most jokes are based on surprise. They take advantage of a confusion of language, or a twist in logic, or a contradiction of some perceived truth, or sometimes just saying something so shocking and offensive that the audience will gasp and then (hopefully) guffaw.

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

I'm a Gemini. Know what that means? There are two very different sides to me.

There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday.

No, I don't think I'll ever get any stalkers, as I'm the stalker type myself.

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.