“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Starlight encased in flesh. Fire burning in so much water. Poetry living in hard spaces. oh, how the body loves” — Lady Grey Copy Share Image
It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox. — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“To her he was still mythic, still larger than life, still the man who could deactivate monsters. He was also the man… — Scott Cawthon Copy Share Image
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
“Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox… — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I do not think it is logical to try and outsmart the smartest people. Instead, my weapons are irony and paradox. The… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
“Happiness consists in finding out precisely what the "one thing necessary" may be, in our lives, and in gladly relinquishing all the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kant is not saying - about freedom or any other subject - anything of the form: "Not-p but we must assume that… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I threw up again that night, half-afraid that my eyeballs would explode. But it was, by far, more important that I get… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“There is a paradox in our pursuit of life. The more we fill our hearts with what the world promises will give… — Derek L. Worthington Copy Share Image
“A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Wyatt avoided the petty gunfights and headed to a saloon and rigged up a bunch of Molotov cocktails. Her firebombs against members… — S. J. Kincaid Copy Share Image
There are great jazz educators that I meet all the time. I met a guy named Paul Luchessi who has a high… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If we have dwelled on Godel's work at some length, is it because we see it in the mathematical analogy of what… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there. — M E W Sherwood Copy Share Image
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no morehurt, only more love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. — Daphne Rae Copy Share Image
“The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.” — Juefan Huihong Copy Share Image
“I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true!” — C.B. Murphy Copy Share Image
When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Jesus brings mystery, paradox, and tension - rarely did someone get a straight answer out of Him — Mike Erre Copy Share Image
Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me. — Jean Reno Copy Share Image
At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The great paradox of life is that to fully live, we must let a piece of ourselves die.” — Darren Main Copy Share Image