Quotes About Contradiction

O Bom ou o Mal, a Luz ou as Trevas, a Ordem ou o Caos? São apenas símbolos, na realidade não existe esse tipo de polaridade! Todos carregam a Luz e as Trevas um pouco de um e um pouco do outro. Essa conversa não tem sentido. Não tem sentido. Não vou conseguir me convencer do misticismo.

De ti se saca un pescador lo mismo que del culo de una cabra una trompeta.

T?skni si? do rzeczy g?upich. Nawet wtedy gdy jest si? m?drym, wtedy chyba najbardziej…

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens.

Even misfortune has its advantages say the wise. Of course the wise say stupid things, because even wisdom has its foolishness, say I.

She looks wonderful, but she doesn't look right.

I absolutely agree with you, but unfortunately the Bishop doesn't. He has found a new hymn by a religious Atheist beginning: 'O God, although Thou art not there, Men sing to Thee as if Thou were,

It made no sense—how can fire burn underwater?

I cannot stand the sight of blood, and once when there was an automobile accident right in front of my eyes, I wheeled round and fled. Yet, I always liked grand destruction. While trembling at the shells and incendiary bombs, I was at the same time tremendously excited at such frenzied annihilation; and yet I believe that I never loved and longed for human beings more than at that time.

There's a paradox in every paradigm.

I do know happy marriages, including mine. But why write about something like that? I can't imagine writing, without irony, about people who are happy all the time.

A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture.

Whatever anyone says, I think the opposite will happen.

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'

I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

Everything is dead while it lives.

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

There's something undeniably oxymoronic about a 'successful' rock n' roll band. Who wants to hear a bunch of success stories whining about their success? More importantly, what can be the drive behind a band, what can they have to rage against when they are successes? That's a dichotomy every successful band wrestles with.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Good can exist in bad, and bad can exist in good. It's not black and white.