Quotes About Contrast

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

Colors are light's suffering and joy

When any distress or terror surprises us in the midst of our amusements, it naturally makes a deeper impression than at other times, either because the contrast makes us more keenly susceptible, or rather perhaps because our senses are then more open to impressions, and the shock is consequently stronger.

All is like, all unlike; all is useful and harmful, eloquent and dumb, reasonable and unreasonable. And what people profess about individual matters is often contradictory.

We may get to know the world however we choose, it will always keep a day and night aspect.

There are men who love their like and seek it; others love their opposite and follow after it.

His easy going behavior contrasts greatly with my restlessness

The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature.

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.

I have a normal life and I have this glamorous life, but to me it's two different things.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.

In real life I'm not the one who's playing with guns or smoking.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.