Quotes About Contradiction

Love and friendship exclude each other

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

Marriage is a contradiction in terms of endearment.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil

It was a heyoka place, a place of sacred clowns who laughed while they wept. A

There are no pure people.

The two terms are mutually exclusive. Like military intelligence. An oxymoron, emphasis on moron.

Yes, she's electric and yes, she's a monster at times.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

I don't think human beans are all that bad-" "They're bad and they're good," said Pod; "they're honest and they're artful- it's just as it takes them at the moment".

Hope wears a strange raincoat and straps a gun inside.

I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there.

It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.