Quotes About Contrast

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.

Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

Where all life dies death lives.

Life is beautiful, and terrible, and strange.

My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products, of course.)

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

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.

The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.

I would rather be on a roller coaster life going through hell and back to appreciate the glory instead of having it all at once.

Real life is not as simple as it is on a screen. I think real life is actually a lot more beautiful.

A life without rain is like the sun without shade.

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.

Life can be both hell and bliss or it can be nothing at all.