Quotes About Contradiction

Love humiliates you, but hatred cradles you.

But she was sure old Henry'd showed up with the other granola-heads, lit incense and rang finger cymbals and blew some pot, no doubt, in John's memory. Om rama rama. Did John Lennon really want all that? Was that what he was about? From what she'd heard, the guy'd had some wit and brains - did he really want to be the dead guy of the hour, like a melting centerpiece?

I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.

I don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one.

We have a love affair with the idea of the 'natural,' even though we, as a species, are about as unnatural as you can imagine.

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy.

What is a policeman made of? He, of all men, is once the most needed and the most unwanted. He's a strangely nameless creature who is 'Sir' to his face and 'Fuzz' to his back.

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

The strange thing about people considering me upbeat is that I'm really not.

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

I had quite a turbulent upbringing. It was middle class, and everything was quite comfortable, but everyone was mental.

The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.

When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

I know the nature of women When you want to they don't want to And when you don't want to they desire exceedingly.

My vigour vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

I love you as much as you love me... So if you hate me, it works out perfectly.

You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.