Quotes About Contrast

Clouds and buttercups exist in poetry, but they are there only because storms and flowers populate the world too.

If there has ever been a group of human beings who prefer despair to delight, frustration to satisfaction, and pain to pleasure, they must be very good at hiding because no one has ever seen them.

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

If all meals were pecan pie, you'd yearn for a cold potato.

Angel and devil," he said. "One is but a shade of the other.

At once I understood how very different the lives of the victorious were from the lives of the conquered.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

en los aeropuertos se ven besos más sinceros que en las bodas. Y los muros de los hospitales han escuchado oraciones más reales que las iglesias.

Une image. Voilà: un jeune couple en train de faire l'amour dans la ville d'Hiroshima, le matin de l'explosion atomique, en 1945. Et la Bombe tombe au moment même où ils parviennent à l'orgasme. Éros et Hiroshima. ÉROSHIMA. Le Sexe et la mort. Les deux plus vieux mythes du monde.

Sometimes its good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.

e, al contrario dei gatti, in natura i poeti non esistono.

Pride and humility, just like darkness and light, have a hard time hanging out together. Actually, without humility, we have very little chance of sustained influence. When

It was thinner than a portrait painter in Constantinople...

Her father did look tired, almost as if he were sitting in shadow when everyone around him was in sunshine.

Aunque sea deprimente pensar que la firma de Richard Nixon está en la luna, el hecho de que realmente haya una carita sonriente en Marte es extrañamente alentador.

Funny the way it is, if you think about it Somebody's going hungry and someone else is eating out. Funny the way it is, not right or wrong Somebody's heart is broken and it becomes your favorite song.

America sure was a funny place to look at when you got far enough away,

This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light.

The character of the older flats battling against the utilitarian nature of the contemporary ones.

The real world, I'm afraid, is a lot more complex and dangerous, and sometimes it takes the ugly parts of life to keep the beautiful parts alive.

Some people said a lot in quiet voices, some said nothing in loud ones.

why a difference in kind should equate to a difference in significance.

My soul fills quietly with the yellow gas of joy. I am to see Alice. I feel light returning, a sudden surge like a goal in extra-time; hope spreads in my heart like fridgeless Clover on white white bread. Even my cold toes become warm. Then I realise that Jezebel has been sick on my feet.

The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye...