Paradox Quotes

Mature love is union under the condition of preserving one’s integrity, one’s individuality. Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unites him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity. In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Churchill

war

truth

Then it was Sedona, Arizona. Aspen, Colorado. Key West, Florida. Lahaina, Maui. All of them crowded with tourists and the natives left
waiting tables. Now it’s Waytansea Island, the perfect escape. For everyone except the people already living there.

Chuck Palahniuk

Diary

Angel Delaporte

Her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

I’ve safely delivered one million passengers over 40 years and tomorrow I’m going to be judged over 208 seconds.

Sully

Chesley Sully Sullenberger

court, judges

importance

Happiness is your biggest enemy. It weakens you. Puts doubts in your mind. Suddenly you have something to lose.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Charles Caleb Colton

human, people

contradiction

A man with no time became a man for all-time.

Sometimes the best way to sound like you're telling the truth is to actually tell the truth.

Therein lies the truth about tragedies. They bring some people closer together, drive others apart.

Solace (2015)

Joe Merriwether

tragedy

essence, bottom line, gist

Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

— Doc! Doc, come in!
— Marty, come in.
— Listen, Biff's guys chased me into the gym and they're gonna jump... me.
— Then get out of there!
— No, Doc, not me. The other me. The one that's up on stage playing «Johnny B. Goode».
— Great Scott! Your other self will miss the lightning bolt. You won't get back to the future and we'll have a major paradox!
— Wait. A paradox? You mean one of those things that can destroy the universe?
— Precisely.

He's too smart for his own good.

My politeness is a trick of the heart.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night

politeness

Dinosaurs had brains the size of walnuts and they ruled the Earth for millions years.

— Jennifer could conceivably encounter... her future self. The consequences of that could be disastrous.
— Doc, what do you mean?
— I foresee two possibilities. One, coming face to face with herself 30 years older... would put her into shock, and she'd simply pass out, or two, the encounter could create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe. Granted, that's a worst-case scenario. The destruction might, in fact, be very localized, limited to merely our own galaxy.
— Well, that's a relief.