Quotes About Contrast

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.

I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.

Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy.

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of should value life more. It's contrast.

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.

Life is a vale of tears in which there are moments you just can't stop giggling.

You can find tea in a tea cup.. but cannot find world in a world cup.

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

Life is beautiful and living is pain.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.