Quotes About Contradiction

I have loved him too much not to hate

It occurred to him that loving people made you both strong and weak at the same time.

You never knew when condoms might come in handy . . . you could blow them up like balloons and tie messages to them, or fill them with water, or roll them on to your fingers and use them as fingerstalls. He didn't really foresee any possibility of their being put to the purpose for which they were intended.

Pretty as a painting, but thorny as a rose.

Ce qui avait pris fin, au fond, c'était la redoutable contradiction dans laquelle elle s'était enfermée : n'aimer que pour être aimée, s'offrir mais pour acquérir celui qui vous reçoit, enchaîner l'autre dans le sacrifice qu'on prétend faire pour lui.

Il créait dans leur couple une zone d'ombre d'où pourrait sortir le meilleur comme le pire.

Mysterious paradox: time, motionless here, gallops out there. In my contracted world, the hours drag on but the months flash by.

It seems impossible that good people – so many good people – can exist in the same world where men shoot up whole families at birthday parties and then stand over their corpses and eat their chicken.

Unfortunately, the very characteristic that led him to embody the goodness that surrounded him also led him to embrace evil when he met it.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.

He loved him and considered him his best friend, yet he hated some of the things he did.

It was ironic—the great socialists could only survive by becoming capitalists." But

Oswaldo was flummoxed by the fact that his friend could be so quiet, almost embarrassed, about his academic acumen, yet so damn loud and proud of his status as a premier campus drug dealer. "I've never met anyone so smart but so fucking dumb," he told Rob.

Tutti i pregiudizi sono determinati da altri pregiudizi, e i più frequenti sono quelli che nascono dai loro opposti.

Allora non sapevo ancora cosa è la vastità, eppure lo intuivo: il poter contenere in sé moltissime cose, anche tra loro contraddittorie, sapere che tutto ciò che sembra inconciliabile sussiste tuttavia in un suo ambito, e questo sentirlo senza perdersi nella paura, e anzi sapendo che bisogna chiamarlo col suo nome e meditarci sopra: ecco la cosa che proprio da mia madre ho imparato, ed è la vera gloria della natura umana

Sometimes I think that you're too sweet to die, Sometimes I think that you're too sweet to die, And another time I think you ought to be buried alive.

Those who say life is a glorious blessing are right. Those who say it is endlessly cruel are also right.

Love can fuel hate.

Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

She felt simultaneously relieved and burdened: relieved of all her old questions; burdened by the answers.

I had wanted more, and I had not wanted more. A familiar old tale, from the lives of girls.

Imagine his surprise to discover that the happiest, most confident woman he's ever met was actually - when you got her alone - a murky hole of bottomless grief.

Qué sucedería al crear una vida lo bastante expansiva como para poder sincronizar varios contrarios incongruentes en un esquema vital que no excluyera nada? Mi verdad era exactamente la que había contado al curandero de Bali... Es decir, quería experimentar ambas cosas. Quería los placeres mundanos y la trascendencia divina..., la gloria dual de una vida humana.