Oxymoron Life Quotes & Sayings

Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid. — Dominic Cooper

Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad? — Ted Dekker

He discovers that God is the very source of our existence. As Lewis will put it: "He is the opaque centre of all existences, the thing that simply and entirely is, the fountain of facthood. — Colin Duriez

'Lagoon' is an ambitious novel. — Nnedi Okorafor

I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance. — A. J. Jacobs

Genius is the ability to push one's limits beyond the limits each time, every endeavour. — Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre

History was safer than the news, because there was no question of how it would end. ~ "The Briefcase — Rebecca Makkai

Life plays a role of oxymoron. You can't predict the actual sense of it unless you feel it. — Bhavik Sarkhedi

And there's no figuring out the unknowable. And there's some kind of oxymoron in that that's more moron than anything else. — Sarah Mussi

Life is indeed precious and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm that fact. — Edward I. Koch

Small thinking and big dreams is an oxymoron — John Paul Warren

Delhi: This place is inself an oxymoron. — Parul Wadhwa

From The Twelve Enlightenments
Observe your own body. It breathes. You breathe when you are asleep, when you are no longer conscious of your own ideas of self-identity. Who, then, is breathing? The collection of information that you mistakenly think it's you is not the main protagonist in this drama called the breath. In fact, you are not breathing; breath is naturally happening to you. You can purposely end your own life, but you cannot purposely keep your own life going. The expression, "My life" is actually an oxymoron, a result of ignorance and mistaken assumption. You don't posses life; life expresses itself through you. Your body is a flower that life let bloom, a phenomenon created by life. — Ilchi Lee

I'm a big man, sugar. When I come down on a woman, I want soft, not a bundle of sticks that I might break." - Logan — Cherise Sinclair

A balance between sustainable ecology and sustainable human life, on the one hand, and the unfettered drive for profit, on the other, is just an oxymoron. — David Suzuki