Quotes About Contradiction

There is always something Right in something that is Wrong and something Wrong in something that is Right.

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

I smoke and I drink and every time I blink I have a tiny dream but as bad as I am I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seem

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

It must be a cruel joke of nature that people who are so bad for us, make us feel so good.

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

"I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog."

All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it

Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position.

I want to be happy and sad at the same time. Yeah, I know it sounds sappy.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

I have been described as a lighthouse in the middle of a bog: Brilliant but useless.

Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It's very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful. I sin but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel

Estar feliz y, sin embargo, no ser feliz. Ah, pero nunca imaginé que el estar feliz incluyera ¿sabés? tanta tristeza.

No sé si soy una persona triste con vocación de alegre, o viceversa, o al revés. Lo que sí sé es que siempre hay algo de tristeza en mis momentos más felices, al igual que siempre hay un poco de alegría en mis peores días.