Quotes About Contradiction

Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey

The gym is always open, except when it's closed.

In seeming contradiction of physical laws, time is heavy only when it is empty.

I am writing a manifesto and there's nothing I want, and yet I'm saying certain things, and in principle I am against manifestos, as I am against principles.

Yo escribo este manifiesto para mostrar que pueden ejecutarse juntas las acciones opuestas, en una sola y fresca respiración; yo estoy en contra de la acción; a favor de la continua contradicción, y también de la afirmación, no estoy ni a favor ni en contra y no lo explico porque odio el sentido común.

Dada est la vie sans pantoufles ni parallèles; qui est contre et pour l'unité et décidément contre le futur; [...] et crachons sur l'humanité.

Sounds crazy and counterintuitive, I know, but it is true.

for very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...

There's nothing so inhuman as a human being.

New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring - it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence.

Ugly Chicken says she's nice,' the little girl said. Freddie

The universe loves irony even more than it loves futility.

To be rejected—which I suppose is one of the easiest ways of making your mark, you have to come right out with something they see as directly and forcefully opposed to what they think they believe in. To be accepted you have to be seen and heard to appear to stand for what they think they believe in. To be neither one thing nor the other is probably unforgivable. But

Octavio Paz when he writes, "The Mexican chases after death, mocks it, courts it, hugs it, and sleeps with it. He thinks of it as his favorite plaything and his most lasting love.

I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

I'm afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

The happier people can be, the unhappier they are.

Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. Once upon a time is how all the best children's stories begin, and prostitute is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning.

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?' 'Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?

That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.

I see no contradiction between my search and personal happiness. -BRIDA

Je glücklicher die Menschen sein können, desto unglücklicher werden sie.