Quotes About Contradiction

Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

Let's develop theories patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them - acting and justifying our actions with new theories that condemn them. Let's cut a path in life then go immediately against that path. Let's adopt all the poses and gestures of something we aren't and don't even wish to be, and don't even wish to taken for being.

I have to choose what I detest – either dreaming, which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasn't born, or dreaming, for which no one was born. Detesting both, I choose neither; but since I must on occasion either dream or act, I mix the two things together.

Nadie me ofende si me contradice: para una criatura como yo, de opiniones tan poco sólidas, y de sentimientos tan cambiantes, la discrepancia no tiene aquel sentido de agravio que asume para los firmes y para los dogmáticos, porque yo vivo en habitual discordancia conmigo mismo".

O único modo de estarmos de acordo com a vida é estarmos em desacordo com nós próprios. O absurdo é divino.

El único modo de estar de acuerdo con la vida es estar en desacuerdo con nosotros mismos. Lo absurdo es lo divino. Establecer

I cultivate hatred of action like a greenhouse flower. I'm proud of myself for dissenting from life.

Everything wearies me, even those things that don't. My joy is as painful as my grief.

Nothing satisfies me, nothing consoles me; everything that has been and that hasn't been jades me. I don't want to have my soul and don't want to renounce it. I want what I don't want and renounce what I don't have. I can't be nothing nor be everything: I'm the bridge between what I don't have and what I don't want.

I exist without knowing it and will die without wanting to. I'm the gap between what I am and am not, between what I dream and what life has made of me, the fleshly and abstract average of things that are nothing, I being likewise nothing.

Let us absurdify life from east to west

We secretly hate paradise.

Singurul mod de a ne putem pune de acord cu viaÅ£a este s? fim în dezacord cu noi înÅŸine.Absurdul este Divinul.

Se mi capita di essere coerente, è solo per incoerenza della mia incoerenza.

I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.

I am me again, exactly as I am not.

El único modo de estar de acuerdo con el mundo es estar en desacuerdo con nosotros mismos. El absurdo es divino.

Only one thing astonishes me more than the stupidity with which most people live their lives, and that's the intelligence of this stupidity.

La manía por el absurdo y la paradoja es la alegría animal de los tristes.

Anything that involves action, be it war or reasoning, is false; and anything that involves abdication is false too.

We worship perfection, because we cannot have it; and we would loathe it if we did. Perfection is inhuman, because to be human is to be imperfect.

Should I one day take an earthly woman to wife, pray for me the following: that she at any rate be sterile. But also ask, should you pray for me, that I never come to have this hypothetical wife.

everything is absurd.1 man spends his life earning money which he then saves even though he has no children 2 leave it 2. another puts all his efforts into becoming famous so that he'll b remembered once dead, yet he doesn't believe in a survival of the soul that would give him knowledge of that fame. yet another wears himself out looking 4 things he doesn't even like.

Tua boca me diz sim, Teus olhos me dizem não. Ai, se gostasses de mim E sem saber a razão.