Quotes About Contrast

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

It is the worst of times. It is the best of times. Try as I might I cannot find a more appropriate opening for this volume: it helps tremendously that these words have been spoken before and, thanks to Charles Dickens, written at the beginning of A Tale of Two Cities.

They'd been attacked by lions, stampeded by elephants, flooded out by rains, made war on by "natives." The tales they told were simply incredible. There they sat on a heavily antimacassared horsehair sofa, two prim and proper ladies in ruffles and lace, telling these stupendous stories over tea.

there was daunting poverty, and there was haunting wealth and the narrator warned her to keep to herself

Nature abhors homogeneity and simply adores eccentric diversity.

The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.

Empire State's orange shoulders lifted above the Hell

me being no one in the air nothing but clouds in the moonlight with humans fucking underneath… .

How many flies buzzed round you innocent of your grime, while you cursed the heavens of the railroad and your flower soul?

I often wonder if it's the curse of old age, to feel young in your heart while your body betrays you.

It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.

BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

there may be thunder in Europe but it is in America the lightning will fall

May it please your honour, crimes are ghastly or agreeable only by comparison.

The light inside the confessional was so dim that I could not see his features very plainly. I only observed that his eyes were large, and bright, and wild-looking, like the eyes of some fierce animal, and that his face, with the reflection of the green curtain upon it, looked lividly pale.

Unhappy times are the best for levity. You don't light candles in the middle of the day, do you?

Love and hate have just a knife's edge between them.

Shit at least makes flowers grow. Honour isn't even that useful.

They say you can see all the beauty in the world in the way a hanged man swings.

No hay nada como contemplar la desgracia ajena para olvidarse de la propia.

Lo que queremos y lo que necesitamos pueden ser cosas diferentes.

Generosity and goodwill sit well on you but they simply do not go with my complexion at all. A certain number of bitter enemies are an essential accessory for a lady of fashion.