55 Quotes About Contradictory

How can we ever bring ourselves to make love again, I thought, if we can speak of our love only by oblique reference to death?

Everything tells me you care for me. And yet never a sign from you.

It was nothing, but it was somehow everything—it was that something for each of them had happened.

I had been confronted (at last) with a sizeable ordeal labelled with my name. This was not something to be wasted.

Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their lives holding similar contradictory thoughts about their parents. They were raised to learn about love and death, and they lived out their lives passing from the sunny spots to the shady spots of this world.

In a way it does not matter where I am. In another way where I am is fated.

He felt indestructible because destroyed.

When one is very close to Truth itself, truthfulness vanishes.

But there can be intuitions even here of a more sublime agony.