Quotes About Contrast

I'd witnessed how brutal this boy could be—he'd nearly beaten the man to death in front of me. Yet he was now touching my paintings gently, almost reverently. I felt like a spy, like this was a moment I was never supposed to share. It seemed . . . intimate. When he touched the cane, I swore I could feel him aching for those fields, for that rain about to fall.

Which made me laugh, of course. If you ever want to get truly hysterical, just get really, really scared, and then have somebody say something funny. You get caught between the laugh and the sob, and it's hard to find your way out.

Darkness does not always equal bad and Light does not always mean good.

We come together, Like drops of water, like astral bodies. We oppose each other, Like magnets, like the colors of skin.

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth is an awakening without tea!

Martland has only two personalities – Wilde and Eeyore.

First came a delightful thrill, as of something very pleasant; then a horrible remembrance.

One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition.

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

You seem hastily made, remarked the Scarecrow, watching Jack's efforts to straighten himself. Not more so than your Majesty, was the frank reply. There is this difference between us, said the Scarecrow, that whereas I will bend, but not break, you will break, but not bend.

I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me

The sailor man had one meat leg and one hickory leg, and he often said the wooden one was the best of the two.

the rose of love made the blossom of friendship small and pale by contrast

To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.

every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns

There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.

If atheism is a religion, then off is a TV channel and bald is a hair colour.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.