Quotes About Contradiction

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

That he loved her was his life's greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.

There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep

We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood.

Mr. Kipling stands for everything in this cankered world which I would wish were otherwise.

We get the right sort of man, but the wrong side of him...

But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victmized. Like the world is so unfair.

Half the time I hate myself for all the things I've done...But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victimized. Like the world is so unfair.

We were warm and shivering, and young and ancient, and alive.

I do want people to feel sorry for me. I do. And then I don't. I do. And then I don't.

It's the opposite of love." Me. Talking without planning to. "Hmm? How so?" "People think of hearts when they think of love, but a heart is a bloody organ in the body. It doesn't have any emotions. It's like a metaphor for love that has nothing to do with what love actually is.

We had been in the attic before. Also, we had never been in the attic before.

He is right. I do want people to feel sorry for me. I do. And then I don't. I do. And then I don't.

Half the time I hate myself for all the things I've done,' says Gat. 'But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victimized. Like the world is so unfair.' 'Why do you hate yourself?' And before I know it, Gat is lying on the bed next to me. His cold fingers wrap around me hot ones, and his face is close to mine. He kisses me. 'Because I want things I can't have,' he whispers.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

Tenho todos os defeitos dos outros e, no entanto, tudo o que eles fazem parece-me inconcebível.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

No, he is not tactful, yet have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet, at the same time, beautiful?

It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.