Quotes About Contradiction

You act like you're okay, Like everything is just fine.But you can't hide a frown, And smile at the same time.

The paperless society is about as plausible as the paperless bathroom.

No nos queda más remedio que clasificar la utopía de un mundo sin violencia como una de las más hermosas, pero, por desgracia

A vida urbana é intrínseca e irremediavelmente ambivalente.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

Maybe I had found true love. Not that true love is a bitter, rotten dead monkey in a box. But then again, maybe.

a saint with the heart of a devil, or a fiend with the soul of a saint.

Nearly anything that can be said about Hinduism can be contradicted by something else that is equally true about it, and nothing whatever that is said about it can be entirely true or entirely false

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Looming over this entire story is one of the most enigmatic of American presidents. A visionary internationalist, he staked his political fortune on his hopes for the League of Nations, where countries would settle their disputes by negotiation instead of warfare. Yet he presided over the greatest assault on American civil liberties in the last century and a half. And, despite his skill as an orator and writer, he showed few regrets over that contradiction

Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.

a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.

She bops around really energetically but she's also still. Like she's moving her torso but her feet don't move, and then sometimes she'll take one step, and it feels like a thesis statement. Like it is a topic sentence about her butt.

Men often want to love, without managing to do so: they seek their own ruin without being able to attain it, and, if I can put it thus, they are forced against their will to remain free.

Hate is the hidden script in the letter of love; its foundations are shared with its opposite. The woman seduced by her partner's way of kissing her neck, turning the pages of a book, or telling a joke watches irritation collect at precisely these junctures. It is as if the end of love is already contained in its beginning, the ingredients of love's collapse eerily foreshadowed by those of its creation.

We seem divided between an urge to override our senses and numb ourselves to our settings and a contradictory impulse to acknowledge the extent to which our identities are indelibly connected to, and will shift along with, our locations.

The pursuit of personal happiness and the production of healthy children are two radically contrasting projects, which love maliciously confuses us into thinking of as one for a requisite number of years. We should not be surprised by marriages between people who would never have been friends

One has given one's white-gloved hand to hands that were steeped in blood and conversed politely with men who have personally slaughtered children. One has waded through excrement and gore; to be Queen, I have often thought the one essential item of equipment a pair of thigh-length boots.

Start seeing the world for what it really is—dirty, rough, tragic, and beautiful. It is truly a wonderful mess.

As often with older people he was both bored and unaccountably involved at the same time.

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.

in life there were times when the entirely inappropriate was the only appropriate response. Perhaps

Let's never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.