Emotional Contradiction Quotes

You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.

I don't like spiders at all, but I love heights.

Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might suppose that the possession of such a magnificent formula, combined with the tremendous assurance of a benevolent God, would make a person happy. But such appears not to be the case.: unease and insecurity and rage seem to keep up with blissful certainty, and even to outpace it.

I hated Jason Witten. I appreciated his game, but I always hated him.

In order to love fighting, I have to hate it.

I hate birthdays. It's so funny, people always come up to me, "Hey! It's my birthday!" But when it's my birthday, I don't want to talk about it, I don't wanna tell anybody.

Successful people tend to feel simultaneously inadequate and superior.

You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.

I miss you, but I haven't met you yet!

The passions often engender their contraries.

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.

I feel happy to terrify kids.

To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.

I get scared of really simple things and not scared of big things.

I have to admit I don't like pizza. I love it. And I am prepared to do literally anything to get my hands on a slice.

It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.

We love the things we pretend to laugh at.

Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.