“Beauty is a paradox, every joy must taste of pain, every goodness bears a wound, every faded memory stains the mind” — Poeticmusings Copy Share Image
The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
“Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Sex is logically impossible after marriage. You have to overcome the paradox of Not this again, and Hey, where did you learn… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation. — Piero Scaruffi Copy Share Image
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
We are on a journey of becoming that which we already are. That is the impossible paradox of our lives. — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is. — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and… — Joy Page Copy Share Image
“No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
To a lot of Africans, seeing an animal is a something of a rarity. So it's a paradox of this sort of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“I call it the Pretty Paradox. Pretty girls always want guys who treat them, and most everyone else, like complete shit. It… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest sleepers that people are going to be able to dig into later is 'Fermi Paradox,' it's… — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freud’s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious,… — Brenda Webster Copy Share Image
If we could travel into the past, it's mind-boggling what would be possible. For one thing, history would become an experimental science,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It doubtless seems highly paradoxical to assert that Time is unreal, and that all statements which involve its reality are erroneous. Such… — John McTaggart Copy Share Image
If anyone e-mails you something "by George Carlin," there's a 99 percent chance I did not write it. I didn't write "Paradox… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to. — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people. — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate. — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“The Elegance Paradox is this: to create elegance requires entirely inelegant preparation, but nobody should be able to see that.” — Dan Ward Copy Share Image
The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles. — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
“the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself. — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The tourist’s paradox: how to find somewhere that’s free of people exactly like us.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They… — Brian May Copy Share Image
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
