Quotes about Contradiction
Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.
— Joseph Heller
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
— George Bernard Shaw
How can you love art, beauty, poetry, and hate life? That's like saying you love the ocean but hate water.
— Marty Rubin
The woman of my dreams. The woman of my nightmares. Everything good and bad about my life. The "I do" that "I didn't.
— Chris Fabry
What occurs between the lover and the beloved is the entire fullness of the Godhead. .. the God is born in solitude, from the secret mystery of the individual. The separation between life and love is the contradiction between solitude and togetherness.
— Carl Jung
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.
— Mark Twain
That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in man. Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present.
— Jurgen Moltmann
We partake of the ideal but we also make poo.
— JM Coetzee
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
— Khalil Gibran
My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.
— Mother Angelica