Paradox Quotes

503 Paradox quotes by 397 unique authors

The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness,… — R. D. Laing
The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is… — Elisabeth Eaves
Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor:… — Dan Millman
Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being… — Michael Moorcock
...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone… — Scarlett Thomas
I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes. — Ferdinand de Saussure
Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns. — Fernando Pessoa
I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it. — Isaac Marion
I threw up again that night, half-afraid that my eyeballs would explode. But it was, by far, more important that I get rid of dinner.… — Marya Hornbacher
You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow. — Christopher Pike
The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all… — Mary Balogh
The dividing line forms-fashioned from: Dragon's tears Missed years Overcome fears The fire and ice paradox Seen with True Sight Darkness does not always equate… — P. C. Cast
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At… — Thomas Wolfe
Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed of… — Jean M. Auel
Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for… — Thomas M. Disch
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to… — Truman Capote
The next day, when I was sober, I thought again about the three of us, and about time's many paradoxes. For instance: that when we… — Julian Barnes
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them… — Stephen King
So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a… — John Green
When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and… — Brennan Manning
As far as possible, Arianne realized, each soul had to be content alone before plunging into love, because one never knew when the other would… — Lauren Kate
It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted to change myself… — Gretchen Rubin

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