“Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't”
Nancy Cartwright
“We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy”
Walter Anderson
“It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare”
Mark Twain
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
Mother Teresa
“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life”
Oscar Wilde
“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.”
G. K. Chesterton
“The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.”
Soren Kierkegaard