Quotes About Contradiction

A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

Not that easy to have tears in your heart but a smile on your lips.

I had never imagined that happiness could hurt so much.

We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.

It perplexes me. How can one sad incident compensate ten happy incidents? Why? Happiness is losing.

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

I'd go down in history for being the most revealing nun ever!

Fun-run" indeed,what a misnomer. That'd be like saying "calm gremlin" or "pleasant hag." Or 'entertaining history textbook.

Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.

A lot of the people who keep a gun at home for safety are the same ones who refuse to wear a seat belt

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

Unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home.

I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.

Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.

Despair exists only when there is hope.

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.