Quotes About Contrast

To laugh is human but to moo is bovine.

Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.

I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Herbal tea tastes so much better when it's coffee.

Nowhere is there an account or portrait of Christ laughing... he is always stern, serious and as gloomy as a prison guard. Never does one see him laughing until tears appear in his eyes like the roly-poly squint-eyed Buddha guffawing with arms upraised.

Law of Window Cleaning: It's on the other side.

His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

In the day of prosperity there is a forgetfulness of affliction: and in the day of affliction there is no more remembrance of prosperity.

If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

When you set in western lightland,Earth is in darkness as if in death.

Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.

There is no equal between good and evil.

The difference between a mountain goat and a swan is that swan mucks around the fountains.

The rubies are so pink, pink itself will stare in disbelief.

Coitados, pensavam que eu gostaria de ler histórias de pessoas sem contrastes, em que os bons são sempre bons e os maus sempre maus, e a bondade e a maldade se acham divididas por uma muralha da China bem definida, e ainda bem, para sabermos de que lado convém estar.

The West is eveningland, the East morningland.

And the rising sun shall rise yet higher, destroying with its flaming fire the evil will of the wicked West, but smiling warmly on the rest.

a man who sold meat but knew nothing of the poetry of the slaughterhouse. Ted Arden was no ice-cream butcher.

The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

Bob Neuwirth: In his depravity, Lou was dignified. Dignified depravity.

And as he looked, turning the leaf over and back, Aethon saw that the cities on both sides of the page, the dark ones and the bright ones, were one and the same, that there is no peace without war, no life without death, and he was afraid.

Draw the darkness ... and it will point out the light which has been in the paper all the while. Inside this world is folded another." from "Afterworld.

It's like reaching into a sack full of cotton and finding a razor blade inside, everything constant and undeviating and then that one dangerous thing, so sharp you can hardly feel it open your skin.