conflicting nature Quotes

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

I relate to both parties. I eat like an elephant and act like a jackass.

Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.

A flame may love a snowflake, but they can never be together without each harming the other.

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.