Quotes About Contradiction

Blue: as yellow is always accompanied with light, so it may be said that blue still brings a principle of darkness with it. This color has a peculiar and almost indescribable effect on the eye. As a hue it is powerful - but it is on the negative side, and in its highest purity is, as it were, a stimulating negation. Its appearance, then, is a kind of contradiction between excitement and repose.

All is like, all unlike; all is useful and harmful, eloquent and dumb, reasonable and unreasonable. And what people profess about individual matters is often contradictory.

Por qué será que lo que colma de felicidad al hombre es al mismo tiempo la fuente de sus desgracias?

It's irrelevant whether what one says is true or false: both will be contradicted.

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.

Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.

Life is never straightforward or emotionally black and white.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.

Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.