Quotes About Contradiction

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Funny things, humans...Just when you think they're all a bunch of morons, a smart one shows up and proves you wrong. ...I do believe that was a compliment. From a demon. Go figure. Yup. Just when you think we're all a bunch of morons... One shows up and makes you fall in love with him.

As D. H. Lawrence trenchantly put it, "Hate is not the opposite of love, the opposite of love is individuality.

The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum

you say I'm worthless yet you waste your time on me. you say I can't do anything right but you still waste your breath on me. you tell me I'm stupid yet you still try to teach me. you tell me to live my life yet you give me no life to live?

It's the contradiction of life, if I were with them,I would only wish to be far away. Now that I am far away, all I do is wish for one more day surrounded by them

Morir por amor. Vivir para odiar. Debería ser una paradoja, y sin embargo, no lo es. --Es lo mismo --comprendió Jack-- Uno.

I am the impossibility of desiring the person you pity. And the petal of the Easter lily—

I'm demon-eyed, but I'm also filled with acceptance.

She was not a dog person. She was not a cat person, fish person, or horse person. On bad days, she was barely a people person. She ate meat, wore leather, and secretly coveted her mother's old mink.

Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence--so that child, in turn, craves something else. With every generation the pendulum swings from opposite to opposite, stillness and peace so elusive.

porque nada enardece más al intranquilo que le digan tranquilízate, nada lo preocupa tanto como que lo inviten a despreocuparse, nada contraría tanto sus impulsos de vuelo como los aterrizados oficios de un samaritano.

People say the word 'nice' and they mean 'boring.' A lot of times nice is boring. But that's not what I mean. Roza was nice and not boring at all.

He preferred her barefoot, he said. She had such lovely feet. Roza didn't agree. What was lovely about feet that could not take you anywhere? What was lovely about feet that could not run?

I think NOT!" Aunt Esther bellowed, and

El dolor puro y completo es tan imposible como la dicha pura y completa".

I understand Jesus perfectly," Mama tells me. "I just don't understand Christians, and I don't think he would either.

Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.

Some days I am all about the ironic gesture

For all her talk of being or so progressive and free...all she really is is full of shit!

Any sentence that combined "I love you" and "but" could not be good.

The gift of life. What an odd expression, a still odder gift, this box of snakes and daisies.

He could be so charming and irreverent and witty, and then-bam!-a switch flipped and he reverted right back to the cocky asshole everyone reported him to be.

Remember: do not think of the opposite...think of the contradiction inherent in the force that you want to draw into your life.