55 Quotes About Contradictory

Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting a paradox, calling it 'two things that seem to be contradictory but may possibly be true.' But that's not a real paradox--a real paradox IS contradictory and IS true. So I don't even call them paradoxes anymore, I call them 'contradictory co-existing realities,' both in direct opposition to each other, both true at the same time.

Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.

He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted.

Yes, I am free, she said to herself, but it's not like ordinary freedom, it's being in hell, a brilliant lucid hell.

Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life'; banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.

There's a little edge of pain here and we walk along it.Don't cry, don't kiss me either, and also don't stop.

Katya, for Lev, is a vortex, by turn alluring and animal, icy and disaffected, often in one same day. Katya is symmetry-breaking.

To violate beautyis the essence of sexual desire.To procreate is the essence of decay.

That was how I responded to beauty, in both women and men: drawn to it at first, and then recoiling. Ruled by my own shallow impulses, then angry at the trick.