Quotes About Contrast

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.

Remember, light and shadow never stand still.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

Life at best is bittersweet.

There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.

Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.

Life is a mixture of light and shadow, calm and storm, and it's all good.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

If you never tasted a bad apple, you would not appreciate a good apple. You have to experience life to understand life.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

God gives us the ugliness so we don't take the beautiful things in life for granted.

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

I'm dating a girl who's pretty levelheaded. She's a nurse. She's a real, normal girl. Which is what I need because my life isn't normal.