Quotes About Contrast

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.

There is no great Dark Man !!!

Led Zep played with light and shade, ear-splitting noise and echoing quiet. They could do it all.

Outward perfection without inward goodness sets but the blacker dye on the mind?s deformity.

Each of us had harbored a nascent thought that we had been too shy to express even to each other: religion possibly underlay the myco-,phobia contrast that marked the peoples of Europe.

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

I was a tourist in a bizarre land. I was home.

Peaks cannot exist without valleys.

At the heart of most antagonisms are irreconcilable similarities.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse: the dark inside, or the darkness out.

I remember Uncle Boysie telling me that Canada was so safe the policemen wore nice red outfits and rode on horses but according to Roy the country was like Gotham City with crooks around every corner… I pictured them as shady Frank Miller characters with bulging muscles and machine guns poking out from trench coats but the photograph from the papers was of a group of boys my age. They kind of resembled some of my friends from Mayaro too.

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

I have my stars in the sky, but oh for my little lamp unlit in my house.

The sands of desert may be very white and shiny, but I would much rather sow my seeds in black soil.

Our music draws the listener away, beyond the limits of everyday human joys and sorrows, and takes us to that lonely region of renunciation which lies to the root of the universe, while European music leads us to a variegated dance through the endless rise and fall of human grief and joy.

THE fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

I would like to be a D.H. Lawrence character, living in one of his novels. The people I meet don't even seem to have characters. And life seems so rich, when I look at it through his eyes, yet my own life very often appears sterile, like a bad patch of earth, as if nothing will grow there however hard I try.

Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.

When the traffic is at a standstill, some of the smaller cottages look dwarfed by the cars. It is possible for the people in the cottages and the cars to look at one another.

My neighbour from the plane was a good foot shorter than me