Contradictory Life Quotes

#1. I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes. - Author: Jamie Lee Curtis

#2. Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the high and the low, the communicable and the incommunicable will cease to appear contradictory. - Author: Andre Breton

#3. The paradox of life lies exactly in this: its resources are finite, but it itself is endless. Such a contradictory state of affairs is feasible only because the resources accessible to life can be used over and over again. - Author: I.I. Gitelson

#4. Your life is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great ... Think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and do not allow any contradictory thoughts to take root. - Author: Rhonda Byrne

#5. We survived the Shaping Sickness. Forerunners hoped to learn the secret of how we survived the Shaping Sickness, but we would not give it to them, even under torture! - Author: Greg Bear

#6. The Air Loom, for all its florid craziness, can be seen to have a function and a rationale: as a miraculous, if temporary, fix for a breaking mind, a coping strategy for a life that had become too brutally contradictory to sustain otherwise. - Author: Mike Jay

#7. Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him
he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory. - Author: Victor Hugo

#8. It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions. - Author: Rajneesh

#9. There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself. - Author: Robert De Niro

#10. There are a lot of other things I could be doing out there, but I love to race. I'm fortunate to have the opportunity, to have the team and to have the resources to be able to do this. - Author: Joe Nemechek

#11. I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense that I try to put in a lot of information, sometimes contradictory information. - Author: Luis Gonzalez

#12. You can never hurt anyone without hurting yourself. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#13. I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange. - Author: Pat Conroy

#14. To want your child to remain innocent whilst toughening up enough to survive This Life is entirely contradictory, but, as far as I can tell, an almost-universal parental desire. It - Author: Nick Alexander

#15. Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life. - Author: Adam Rayner

#16. As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. - Author: Charles Baudelaire

#17. A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas. - Author: Felix Frankfurter

#18. Maturity is when you accept the fact that two contradictory ideas can exist together. - Author: David Kessler

#19. Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc ... It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth. - Author: Asger Jorn

#20. Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. - Author: Ayn Rand

#21. It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell. - Author: James A. Michener

#22. You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life - Author: Salvador Dali

#23. It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on the other, and often simultaneously. Contradictory desires mean that life can never be wholly satisfying or without frustration. - Author: Theodore Dalrymple

#24. You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions. - Author: Bryant H. McGill

#25. If you do enough things, you're going to eventually narrow it down to the things that really make you happy. - Author: Lights

#26. Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable. - Author: Kilroy J. Oldster

#27. The curious double strands in Farfrae's thread of life - the commercial and the romantic - were very distinct at times. Like the colours in a variegated cord those contrasts could be seen intertwisted, yet not mingling. - Author: Thomas Hardy

#28. The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the self-sat-isfied man. - Author: Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#29. Life itself is contradictory. Only death is consistent. - Author: Vera Caspary

#30. It is so contradictory that life can be the worst it's ever been and the best it's ever been all at once. It's strange how love can blossom even in the darkest places. - Author: Amanda Hocking

#31. In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil. - Author: Swami Vivekananda

#32. Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory. - Author: Ann Voskamp

#33. I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory. - Author: George Saunders

#34. I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean. - Author: Kurt Cobain