Quotes About Contradiction

In a society... so madly in love with oxymoron's... ask yourself this... ...when was the last time you ever bought anything for free?

Society reproduces itself antagonistically.

You Can't Live If You Can't Die

You can be happy about a lot of things in your life, yet just one thing can make you miserable.

Jim looked at him. He was lying on his front with a meadow grass sticking out from his mouth. How did Doyler do this? He could make Jim so angry with himself, so ashamed. The next minute, he was all alive, like a spark was inside, like the full of him was electric. How did Doyler do this to him? He really didn't know.

I was a happy melancholy, though — a contradiction in terms, to be sure, but every human understands this paradox, because they have all felt it.

Who's the clown in life, the one with the two faces and characters or the persons who Laugh about them?

De mensen zijn zo consequent als een toverbal en zo voorspelbaar als een tsunami en soms deugen ze opeens.

Diepzinnigheid die niet gebakerd ligt in paradoxale oppervlakkigheid is natuurlijk een gruwel.

From Jane Collier's "An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting" - In short, keep up in your mind the true spirit of contradiction to everything that is proposed or done; and although, from want of power, you may not be able to exercise tyranny, yet, by the help of perpetual mutiny, you may heavily torment and vex all there that love you; and be as troublesome as an impertinent fly, to those who care not three farthings about you.

Christianity is supposed to be all about love but it's utterly useless when you're in love.

There is a popular cartoon that shows a mother talking to her child. "Honey," she says, "when you're older, I want you to be confident, assertive, and independent. But right now I want you to be compliant, quiet, and obedient." Most parents know the feeling: The very same qualities that we want for our children as adults can make life challenging when they're young.

As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.

from a contradiction you may deduce everything

Life is a mighty joke that is not meant to be funny."

Synkronointi: pyytää anteeksi ja vannoa kostoa samanaikaisesti.

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

I'm not courageous. In fact, when I shadow box I wear boxing gloves that are outfitted with flashlights.

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side.

I'd learned, though, that life isn't a movie. Though it's nice to believe in white-hatted heroes and black-hatted villains, people are a lot more complex than that.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together. One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of thought. It is not thought which needs showing.

Eso pasa a diario, Miguel, continuamente. La gente empieza viendo una cosa y acaba viendo la contraria. Empieza amando y acaba odiando, o sintiendo indiferencia y después adorando. Nunca logramos estar seguros de qué va a sernos vital ni de a quién vamos a dar importancia. Nuestras convicciones son pasajeras y endebles, hasta las que consideramos más fuertes. También nuestros sentimientos. No deberíamos fiarnos.

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.