Quotes About Contrast

The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.

In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.

Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. I'm Tally Youngblood, she said. Make me pretty.

Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.

there was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly

Only a God can take in all of them, The whole lot, for He dwells in eternal light, While we poor devils are stuck down below 1810 In darkness and gloom, lacking even candlelight, And all you qualify for is, half day, half night.

Dove c'è molta luce, l'ombra è più nera...

Classisch ist das Gesunde, romantisch das Kranke.

We first observe how dreary and disagreeable an overclouded day is when a single sunbeam pierces through, and offers to us the exhilarating splendor of a serene hour.

N? üçün insan?n xo?b?xtliyini t??kil ed?n bir ?ey, h?m d? onun iztirablar?n?n m?nb?yi olmal?d?r?

I cannot help esteeming Albert. The coolness of his temper contrasts strongly with the impetuosity of mine, which I cannot conceal. He has a great deal of feeling, and is fully sensible of the treasure he possesses in Charlotte. He is free from ill-humour, which you know is the fault I detest most.

Blau Es ist die Farbe des Dunklen. Es ist als Farbe eine Energie und in der höchsten Reinheit ein reizendes Nichts. Es scheint zurückzuweichen (die fernen Berge sieht man blau) und zieht einen aber nach. Es ist angenehm anzusehen, es gibt ein Gefühl von Kälte und erinnert an einen Schatten. Blaue Zimmer wirken zwar weit, aber kalt und leer. Blaues Licht stimmt traurig. Wird blau von der Plusseite berührt ist dies angenehm.

She [nature] is the sole artist, creating extreme contrast out of the simplest material, the greatest perfection seemingly without effort, the most definite clarity always veiled with a touch of softness. Each of her works has its own being, each of her phenomena its separate idea, and yet all create a single whole.

Chicago is a pocket edition of hell," he wrote, "and if it is not, then hell is a pocket edition of Chicago.

Transgress. In a word, be other than yourself in turning into your love-soaked opposite.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

Out of the dusk a shadow,Then a spark;Out of the clouds a silence,Then a lark;Out of the heart a rapture,Then a pain;Out of the dead, cold ashes,Life again.

In the light of the crappy little lamp, all I was looking at was a frizzy mop of blonde hair and a bare back with one big angry red patch on it, but Jesus fucking God she was beautiful, and if you don't understand that, I'm sorry for you.

In the midst of chaos and injustice and violence, Jesus displays gentle mercy for His enemy. The contrast is not only emotionally moving, but theologically significant and instructive.

He was going to live with his Uncle Jonathan, whom he had never met in his life. Of course, Lewis had heard a few things about Uncle Jonathan, like that he smoked and drank and played poker. These were not such bad things in a Catholic family, but Lewis had two maiden aunts who were Baptists, and they had warned him about Jonathan.

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

We look for romance in the well-cultivated garden-plots, and when it springs out of virgin soil we are surprised, though any fool might know it was the natural place for it.

The name of the one was Obstinate and the name of the other Pliable.