Quotes About Contradiction

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

I love humanity but I hate people.

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.

Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.

Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

You own a dog but you feed a cat.

I hated him more than anything. I loved him more than anything. Because, he was everything. And I hated that, too.

It was a total catch-22, like a contradiction in terms.

How was it possible to hate him so much and still need him so much at the same time?