“Sometimes you have to kill to preserve.”— Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus, Captain Theresa Yao, Jean Yoon, imdb.com
“Have you heard of Master Zhuang’s paradox? 'I dreamt I was a butterfly. Now I’ve woken up and I no longer know if I’m a person who dreamed he’s a butterfly or if I’m a butterfly who’s dreaming it’s a person.'”— Jantje Friese, Ronny Schalk, Ines Kahnwald, Anne Ratte-Polle, imdb.com
“It is no paradox to say that although comparatively weak the new-born nation was intrinsically strong.”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“The problem was that I craved intimacy to the same degree that I detested commitment.”— Amanda Palmer, amazon.com
“I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible.”— Tomaž Šalamun, goodreads.com
“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, amazon.com
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“At your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.”— Cecelia Ahern, amazon.com
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”— Mother Teresa, amazon.com
“I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.”— Jean Rhys, amazon.com
“The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand itself.”— Adam Elenbaas, goodreads.com
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”— Carl Rogers, amazon.com
“It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“Paradox as it may seem, we likewise find life meaningful only when we have seen that it is without purpose, and know the 'mystery of the universe' only when we are convinced that we know nothing about it at all.”— Alan W. Watts, amazon.com