"I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive."

Paradox, Life, Death, Existence

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"I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive."

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"Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice."

Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author

Paradox, Joy, Pain, Emotion

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Paradox, Cats, Humor, Science

"In some situations, no one has courage to challenge the reason. Since faith causes the reasoning to evaporate."

Girdhar Joshi, Indian Author

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"Love: the sickest of Irony's sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die."

Christopher Moore, American Novelist

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"Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas' - 'Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses'."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Paradox, Beauty, Pain, Contrast, Hope

"I agree. I don't understand how a guy everyone is terrified of makes me feel safe. I don't understand how a guy who stayed behind to protect me when he didn't know me has been shot. I don't understand how a guy who carried me out of an alley full of shattered glass is the enemy everyone is warning me about."

Katie McGarry, American Author

Paradox, Safety, Trust, Heroism

"One gains by losing and loses by gaining."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Paradox, Gain, Loss, Values

"The hope is the best and the worst thing at the same time."

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

Paradox, Hope, Life, Emotion

"At least I'm honest about being a liar."

Tahereh Mafi, Iranian Author

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"To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love."

Aiden Wilson Tozer, American Clergyman

Paradox, Love, Faith, Seeking

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"Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well."

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"On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before."

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"Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass."

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"...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth."

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"Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice."

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"

"In some situations, no one has courage to challenge the reason. Since faith causes the reasoning to evaporate."

"Love: the sickest of Irony's sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die."

"Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas' - 'Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses'."

"One gains by losing and loses by gaining."

"The hope is the best and the worst thing at the same time."

"At least I'm honest about being a liar."

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"Your past is my Future."

"Intuition is seeing with the soul."

"What we do as a society is seek simple answers."

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"I would die of lonely."

"Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well."

"Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass."

"...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth."