Quotes About Contradiction

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

She (Patricia Higsmith) was a mean, cruel, hard, unlovable, unloving human being…I could never penetrate how any human being could be that relentlessly ugly…. But her books? Brilliant.

I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.

I think war is just part of human nature. And I'm fascinated by human nature – especially the dark side. I always have been. It doesn't make me a Devil worshipper, no more than being interested in Hitler makes me a Nazi. I mean, if I'm a Nazi, how come I married a woman who's half Jewish?

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Trató de encender el cigarrillo que ya había encendido. Los tuertos hacen cosas así, se dijo buscando una imposible disculpa.

The truth is sometimes the very opposite from what you expect it to be.

Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.

The Cross is the sign of contradiction—destroying the seriousness of the Law, of the Empire, of the armies . . . But the magicians keep turning the cross to their own purposes. Yes, it is for them too a sign of contradiction: the awful blasphemy of the religious magician who makes the cross contradict mercy! This is of course the ultimate temptation of Christianity!

Paradoxical thinking requires that we embrace a view of the world in which opposites are joined, so that we can see the world clearly and see it whole...The result is a world more complex and confusing than the one made simple by either-or thought - but that simplicity is merely the dullness of death. When we think together we reclaim the life force in the world, in our students, in ourselves.

Pie may just be the Madonna-whore of the dessert world.

All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.

It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion, the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

Paradox reconciles all contradictions.

Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance.

Who cares even if I didn't?!" Conor shouted back. "They're just stupid berries. Woo-hoo, so scary . Oh, please, please, save me from the berries !" The monster looked at him quizzically. How strange , it said. The words you say tell me you are scared of the berries, but your actions seems to suggest otherwise.

And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.

It does not matter what you think, your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. You do not write your life with words, you write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

How can a parson be wrong-thinking but good-hearted? How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?

What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down.

It does not matter what you think, the monster said, because you mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day.