Quotes About Contradiction

Frankly, people don't make sense to me.

one half leaning in, one half pulling away.

I couldn't hear his voice over the hammer of my heart. And I told myself over and over I should have known that someone who could love so hard and so well could also hate, and hurt, as deeply.

I'm the kind of person you want to kill.

I believe in Hell . . . but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.

Can a person hold tightly to two thoughts that look, at first sight, as if they'd cancel each other out?

believe in Hell… but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.

Can a person not be two things at once?

Could something that looked so wrong on the outside turn out to be undeniably right?

A severe example is the common modern American phrase "I could care less," which, it turns out, means the same thing as "I couldn't care less.

Sweetbread is not sweet and it's not bread.

Lovat liked and detested London at the same time.

Happy sadness, sad happiness, the story of my life and loves

Everybody knew that Theodore Dinkins was dead. But Theodore Dinkins sat on the graveyard fence and said that he was not; and grew angry if contradicted.

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

People are funny. They want a place in the front of the bus, the back of the church, and the middle of the road. Tell a man there are 300 billion stars, and he will believe you. Tell him that a bench has just been painted, and he has to touch it to be sure.

Today things are different. The darkness in the outside world has vanished, but the darkness in our hearts remains, virtually unchanged. Just like an iceberg, what we label the ego or consciousness is, for the most part, sunk in darkness. And that estrangement sometimes creates a deep contradiction or confusion within us.

I'm like a star burst - a juicy contradiction. I'm hard to figure out, but when you get to my center you're suprised. It's not what you thought it would be.

I hate you but I still love you. It's like I want to throw you off a cliff then rush down to save you.

The greatest irony of love is letting go when you need to hold on and holding on when you need to let go.

Love is hard to understand, impossible to live with yet so miserable to live without. I have loved and have been loved. Sadly, though, never at the same time.

Its so hard yet so so easy to love you, then hate you, then love you again.

Somehow, you are both the best and the worst thing that has happened to me.

Sometimes I love you, sometimes I hate you, but there isnt a day that goes by that I dont miss you.