Quotes About Contrast

Life is cruel? Compared to what?

How could one create life with someone who represented death?

I wear no makeup in real life. I'm very simple. That may be why I go over the top for the red carpet. But otherwise, I'm very plain. I should make more of an effort, actually.

Life, to me, is never one color. Even in the saddest moments, you can have a chuckle. And in the happiest moments, you can shed a tear.

Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

The Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way, while in America, the majority of movies are wonderful fairy tales.

When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.

I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.

The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.

I would do the baby voice and it's kind of like this character I made up. But in real life, I'm completely different. I'm very smart. I think a lot of people will assume I'm an airhead.

Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.

Life is not one tone: you laugh and you cry, and your heart breaks, and you have great, great happiness.

And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can sit side by side with a big one, and become part of the same.

There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunghill; if anything, the contrary, for the latter is full of life and warmth and energy.

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.

It's hard keeping everything the same when the same things look and feel so different

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.

I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though she was a singing and dancing European intellectual.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.

I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties.