Quotes About Contrast

Although we belong to a species which spends an alarming amount of its time blowing things up, every now and then we are moved to add gargoyles or garlands, stars or wreaths, to our buildings for no practical reason whatever.

Nada que no asuma un riesgo calculado con la fealdad puede ser bello.

Jarenlang kwam ik bij het boodschappen doen langs een huis dat weliswaar een van de lelijkste gebouwen was dat ik ooit heb gezien, maar me ook meer over architectuur heeft geleerd dan menig meesterwerk.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter.

But ma'am must have been briefed, surely?' 'Of course,' said the Queen, 'but briefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

It was disquieting to Eddie, this jarring contrast between the bright, cheery atmosphere inside Palisades and the slowly darkening world outside it. As calliope music played and diapered babies crawled in derbies, bombs fell on the other side of the world, which no longer seemed so comfortably distant.

Your religion is all about being miserable, and wretched. Ours had time for play, and joy. How is this an improvement?

There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate

The lawyer Thien, when Morath was ushered into his office by a junior member of the staff, turned out to be an ancient bag of bones held upright only by means of a stiff, iron-coloured suit.

I was applying myself to the subtler connoisseurship of the out-of-season, days without warmth and nights without encounters, empty pleasure-grounds and the violence of the tides.

One day [Rabbi Spear] talked about his theory of happiness. He proposed that human feelings respond only to contrast and change, not to constancy, just as eyesight responds to contrasts of light and dark and to movement. The rabbi speculated that if emotions are similar to eyesight and other senses, then perhaps emotions were developed by nature as a survival mechanism.

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap.

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.

I have so very much. I have so very little.

In the heart of darkness, a flower blossoms, enriching the shadows with its promise of hope... In the fields of light, an adder coils, and the radiant tranquility is lent savor by its sinister presence. Right and wrong, black and white, good and evil...all my existence I have looked from one to the other, fully embracing neither one...never before have I understood how much they depend on each other.

Children starve while boots costing many thousands of dollars leave their mark upon the surface of the moon. We have labored long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

There is nothing more awkward to look at, said Joejoe, than peasants in suits. They don't fit into them.

Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss

I found the hum of his computer rather soothing, but it was the complete lack of unicorn carcasses that really pulled the room together.

She was nothing like me; she was everything like me. How was that even possible?

Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!

You're a jumper. He's a thinker.