Quotes About Contradiction

In moments, I clutched at the notion of some larger "me" that could contain and justify my contradictory behavior, but more often I simply felt like the scene of two irreconcilable visions, two different people, one unerringly loyal and faithful, the other treacherous and greedy.

an edgy eagerness to please that his irony couldn't conceal.

She wore a wedding ring (as did he) and a small gold cross at her neck, but a current of wayward sensuality had been unmistakable in her, making these symbols seem apotropaic.

Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end.

As psychoanalysis has made so clear, human beings move through life dictated to by a mess of conscious and unconscious memories, acts and feelings. The language of art is a reflection of this: it's one of slippages, ambiguities and contradictions that are communicated via images, which are, by their very nature, indeterminate.

I am everything. I am nothing. I am powerful. I am forgotten.

The answer to your first riddle," I told him. "If yes is no and once is never, then the number of sides a triangle has… is… two." I drew out my reply, not bothering to explain how I'd arrived at my answer

I was supposed to have an edge. But sharp-edged girls had feelings, too.

Why was my grandfather, a Texas billionaire with a whole host of private chefs on call, eating at a hole-in-the-wall diner in a small Connecticut town that no one's ever heard of?

It was warm and safe and happy-but it wasn't me. [Cassandra Hobbes]

Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will.

il la tuait de ses caresses, après l'avoir rouée de coups.

Both women, looking different ways, kept shrugging their shoulders and asking themselves how the deuce the other could tell such whoppers!

If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable. Because you are not fit to go there, I answered. All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. (Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw)

I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?

Ele ama e odeia, sempre às escondidas, e considera uma espécie de impertinência ser amado ou odiado de volta.

he was always greedy; though what he grasps with one hand he flings away wit the other.

I've done no injustice, and I repent of nothing. I'm too happy; and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.

Nature est un problème inexplicable; elle existe sur un principe de destruction. Chaque être doit être l'instrument infatigable de la mort d'autrui, ou lui-même doit cesser de vivre, mais néanmoins nous célébrons le jour de notre naissance, et nous louons Dieu pour avoir saisi un tel monde.

I'm too happy, and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.

Debería de odiar y amar disimulándolo, y seguramente hubiera considerado como un impertinente a quien lo amase o le odiase, a su vez.

What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy

Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?