Quotes About Contradiction

Life swarms with innocent monsters.

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.

What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.

This world is a comedy, not Life.

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

I may make you feel but I can't make you think....your sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink.....

Something my life has taught me is not to see things in black and white. People are neither all good nor all bad.

A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.

The only way to justify this contradiction, the only way to explain how one kind of people are born free while another kind of people are not, would be to sow a new seed, an ideology of race. It would take a long time to grow, and longer to wither.

Opposing ideas can be simultaneously true; one reinforces the other even as they're both canceled out.

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.