Contrary Quotes

“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“Truth and facts often have a contrary message with a trying mission to show the cards' real color shuffled in the rough-and-tumble of our social and political arena.
("Imbroglio")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between...I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Embrace contradictions
for they make up
all of life:
You will eternally be
looking for yourself and
seeking ways to lose yourself.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.”
― Alcibiades

“When I'm working I'm wishing I was doing nothing and when I'm doing nothing I'm wondering if I should be working. I hurry through what I've got to do and then, when I've got nothing to do, I keep glancing at the clock, wishing it was time to go out. Then, when I'm out, I'm wondering how long it will be before I'm back home.”
― Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

“You ain’t got no advantages when you’re small and contrary.”

“I ain’t puny,” I said hotly. “And I ain’t contrary.”
― Jessica Maria Tuccelli, Glow

“What if opposites could be combined and transcended, paradox embraced, a whole life lived in contradictory case?”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

“I trust contrariness. ... I simply rebelled at being commanded.”
― Seamus Heaney

“Yesterday you were angry at my lack of assistance. Today you bite my head off for helping. You are the most contrary person I have ever known."
That took the wind out of me. Being labelled contrary by Wendell Bambleby would stop any sensible person in her tracks.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“It is contrary to the usual practice of professional men to give their opinions upon each other's work unless regularly called upon in the way of their profession.”
― John Smeaton

“You will ever depress the devil if you always love those who spit hatred into your face. The devil loves vengeance and anything contrary to this is an agenda to bring down his temporal kingdom!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Rebellion is as much of a cage as obedience is. They both mean living in reaction to someone else's way instead of forging your own.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life

“Contrary to popular opinion, leaders aren’t created out of fame. Fame is just a shadow. When you enter dark times in, it leaves you.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“I'll always wait for you. Bye! Gotta go.”
― Vikrmn, You By You

“Contrary? Not me!”
― Clifford Cohen

“The more emotionally satisfying an idea is the more it should be critically regarded, because we as humans are prone despite contrary facts to believe our desires are true.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Most arguments are started by people who actually think they have an argument to start.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When you live in contrary to the demand of life, life doesn't work for you. Life rather works against you.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Shh! It happens. Sh!it happens.”
― Vikrmn, You By You

“Life is simple, as simple as Quant.”
― Vikrmn, You By You

“Contra: Why don't you trust me honey? Wait, rather I doubt that you are in a going around.”
― Vikrmn, You By You

“Adopting a contrary outlook when necessary is not wrong it's smart.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail

“Neno la Kristo ndilo litakalotufanya tuongoke na ndilo litakalotutoa duniani. Tunapokwenda kinyume chake tunaanza kuweka matabaka miongoni mwetu sisi wenyewe.”
― Enock Maregesi

“You may deny, but the truth is that most of the men for the friendly relationship of the females hold the sex intentions in their minds while to the contrary women do not think that.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Introduce yourself is contrary to promote yourself. The first term is your right, but the other one is the question of reliability.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“To the contrary of what appears to be true, even in the direst situation, you have a wealth of choices.”
― Steven Redhead, Life's Impressions

“Irony; coffee is decaf, milk is lactose-free, candles are wax-free, sooner; nature will be tree-free, the sun will be shine-free and humans emotion-free.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Slate

“More than illusion, harmful is not knowing that you are living in an illusion. This world is like a reality show, which, contrary to its name, is never real, but preplanned. Likewise is life.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma

“I was told that even if I had years of sobriety, I would always be an addict, and I believed it. Since my identity was that of an addict, didn’t that mean abstinence from drugs was contrary to my identity and doing drugs was in alignment with it? This confused me because if I believed this philosophy, it meant I would never heal from my disease; I would only go into remission. It also meant that the harder I tried to abstain from drugs, the more I was fighting against who I really was.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose