Top 41 Love Contradiction Quotes
#1. [J]uvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue
indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge and duty and embraces it more than the self-love he was born with.
Robert A. Heinlein
#2. If you would have a clear evidence that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true? Then live up to that love, live up to that faith, live up to that zeal that you have; and this will be evidence beyond all contradiction.
Thomas Brooks
#3. The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink
George Orwell
#4. So now Stephen must actually learn at first hand hwo straight can run the path of true love, in direct contradiction to the time-honoured proverb. Must realize more clearly than ever, that love is only permissible to those who are cut in every respect to life's pattern.
Radclyffe Hall
#5. I began to wonder if writers don't choose to love long-distance, a sure way of blending passion and prose. The love letter seems perfectly suited to the contradiction of a writer's life... the love letter may be the emblem of a vocation that demands solitude but desires communication.
Cathy N. Davidson
#6. We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.
Mother Teresa
#7. I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.
Jeanette Winterson
#8. There is no contradiction between loving someone and feeling burdened by that person; indeed, love tends to magnify the burden.
Andrew Solomon
#9. That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.
Paulo Coelho
#10. Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved ...
Thomas Carlyle
#11. ( ... ) it seemed to me exceedingly peculiar that a man should love flowers as well as opium - and yet I see now that there is no contradiction in this, for are they not perhaps both a means to a kind of intoxication ? Could it not even be said that one might lead inevitably to the other ?
Amitav Ghosh
#13. I am difficult to love, and I know it. I never learned the unconditional part, so trust evades me. Add sex and I fall apart, eventually retreating back into the swamp. Very few people can put up with me, and I can't blame them. I am a constant contradiction. I annoy myself.
Rosie O'Donnell
#14. I was seventeen all over again, falling into intrigue with the boy who was an exquisite contradiction.
Blakney Francis
#15. If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#16. To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.
John Woolman
#17. We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.
Martin Buber
#18. I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.
Gwen Stefani
#19. She scares the hell out of me and calms my soul at the same time. Maybe that's what love is - a total contradiction that somehow balances out.
Tammara Webber
#20. Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.
Peter Deunov
#21. This is the contradiction we have in the media. We love vigilantes: Batman, Tarzan, Green Arrow - the comic books and the TV shows are filled with vigilantes. We love to promote it. Jesus Christ was a vigilante. We admire these people, but we don't want to be associated with them.
Paul Watson
#22. I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#23. I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities and contradictions and beauty and violence and stench and desire and astonishing physicality of the body back into literature.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#24. Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.
Erich Fromm
#25. Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
G.K. Chesterton
#27. So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you," said Simon, not very kindly. "That seems contradictory, doesn't it?"
"Love is a contradiction," said Jace.
Cassandra Clare
#29. Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#30. It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.
Rajneesh
#32. Everyone says that getting over somebody 'just takes time' and that one day it will stop hurting and the door will open for you to move on. We are also told that love is eternal; something extraordinary that will stay with you forever... The contradiction is immense.
Natasha Preston
#33. They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#34. What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.
Paul Haggis
#35. The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love. -p83
Frederick Buechner
#36. The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.
Ivan Doig
#37. I had never expected to fall in love, but then, I'd never imagined anyone like Jess. She was one beautiful contradiction. The idea of letting someone else own my heart wasn't appealing. It sounded weak and Foolish. Something meant for the words of a song. I was wrong.
Abbi Glines
#38. You have to know someone intimately to be able to love them. So love at first sight is a contradiction in terms. Unless in that first sight there's some sort of mystical gigabyte downloading of information from one mind into the other.
David Mitchell
#39. The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.
Mason Cooley
#40. My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there ... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world.
Rula Jebreal
#41. Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.
Peter Landesman
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