Quotes About Contradiction

"Happy marriage" is a contradiction in terms.

The universe would rather live with paradox than infinite timelines,

How are you making utopia sound like Hell on Earth?

Compartmentalize. Accept the Cartesian logic of two separate universes within one life. Accept the contradictory tug between familial responsibility and the illusion of freedom. Accept that – as Dumas said – the chains of marriage are heavy and, as such, they often need to be carried by several people. But never allow the two realms to meet – and never admit anything. Whereas you, Harry, confessed everything … didn't you?

On that occasion Lilla provided an insight into one of the other central conundrums of our time. He said, 'You cannot tell people simultaneously "You must understand me" and "You cannot understand me".' Evidently a whole lot of people can make those demands simultaneously. But they shouldn't, and if they do then they should realize that their contradictory demands cannot be granted.

You cannot tell people simultaneously "You must understand me" and "You cannot understand me".' Evidently a whole lot of people can make those demands simultaneously. But they shouldn't, and if they do then they should realize that their contradictory demands cannot be granted.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

They say real girls aint never perfect, perfect girls aint real.

Well, I think to myself now, domestic bliss may be one thing, but domestic goddess you are not.

When every answer and its opposite appears equally obvious, then, as Lazarsfeld put it, "something is wrong with the entire argument of 'obviousness.' "5

Common sense, in other words, is not so much a worldview as a grab bag of logically inconsistent, often contradictory beliefs, each of which seems right at the time but carries no guarantee of being right any other time.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me.

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

Everything that is contradictory creates life

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

All is going well, very well, I couldn't ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

Your vigor for life appalls me.