Quotes About Contrast

Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.

Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. Its not glam.

I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

There is an enormous abyss between subject and object.

the murder rate has fallen by 16.7 per cent in the US cities since the turn of the century, while rising by 16.9 per cent in the suburbs – almost an exact mirror image.42

And as to the wonders of modern technology, bear in mind that a sidewalk weed and a protozoan are each more complex than any device yet invented by humanity.

We are entering the Dark Ages, my friend, but this time there will be lots of neon, and screen savers, and street lighting.

And there was no Camelot now -- now that no Queen was there, all white and gold, under an oaktree with another sunlight sifting itself in silence on her glory through the dark leaves above her where she sat, smiling at what she feared, and fearing least what most there was to fear.

Where the Light falls, death falls; And in the darkness comes the Light.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Fire and water cannot stay in the same place. Similarly, truth and lie reflect and describe such context; accordingly, whatever one feels that an opposite one will fail to bear it.

Mostly tears with the smile carry happiness and joy, tears with the cry bear grief and pain.

No matter how beautiful and fragrant the rose stays, it naturally blooms between the thorns, which no one embraces the thorny rose. Similarly, no matter how lovely can be a family head, but its old trend principles and self-restricted thoughts certainly cause a bitter, even poisonous atmosphere.

The honeybee makes the honey, and the dirty fly makes the dirt. Which, whatever is that reflects itself. If the dirty fly goes anywhere, it makes the dirt while the honeybee makes the honey. In that context that the squeeze of our mental, intellectual, character, and morals comes to our eyes is the evil people. It is the essence of our nation, and we shall have to taste that until we are not as the honeybee.

Thoughts and feelings constitute, as two sides of one coin with different images.

You cannot hold fire and water together in an object nor flowers and thorns in a fist; similarly, you cannot carry vanity and love in a heart because that context contradicts each other.

Remember, tears on one side mean laughs on the other!

Is that so? He who lives in the mountains years for the city, and the city-dweller would rather live in the mountains," the Abbot chuckled, "and nothing is ever to one's liking...

You'll find, my friend, that in the gutters of this floating world, much of the trash consists of fallen flowers.

Maybe every man has two such women—at least two. Marry a red rose and eventually she'll be a mosquito-blood streak smeared on the wall, while the white one is "moonlight in front of my bed." Marry a white rose, and before long she'll be a grain of sticky rice that's gotten stuck to your clothes; the red one, by then, is a scarlet beauty mark just over your heart.

Too tall, standing up. In bed he was very much the right size.

He possessed ugliness the way a few rare souls possess beauty, an ugliness that fascinated

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.