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Quotes About Contrast

Los Angeles] the world's biggest third-class city...
~ John D. MacDonald
You can easily recognize the good parts of your life because they are starkly outlined in crap.
~ John DeChancie
Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call, for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.
~ John Donne
all right we are two nations
~ John Dos Passos
Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.
~ Danny Boyle
Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.
~ David Lynch
Sometimes people can only imagine that I live a glamorous life 24/7, which I don't. I just like the most natural and simple things. That's what makes me happy.
~ Izabel Goulart
How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.
~ Mary Russell Mitford
The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
~ Oskar Homolka
I am like Hugh Hefner minus anything good about his life.
~ Ray Romano
I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
London, dirty little pool of life
~ Behramji Malabari
I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys.
~ Cassandra Clare
Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.
~ Franz Kafka
What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.
~ Gore Vidal
Yesterday was glory and joy. Today, a blackened burn everywhere. On the record of my life, these two days will be put down as one
~ Rumi
What is life without incompatible realities?
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
They can send death at once, but life is slower.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn
~ Holly Black
Here's a helpful life tip. Stand by things that are white cuz it makes you look less white.
~ Jenna Marbles