Quotes About Contrast

THE LAST HUMAN STRANGER, PAGE 38 There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it had been empty.

El era al doilea om de z?pad? care se topea sub ochii ei, dar acesta era diferit. Era un paradox. Cu cât devenea mai frig, cu atât mai repede se topea.

Like most misery, it started with an apparent happiness

like regret in the shadow of trees and in the glow of an anarchist's suit collection

Everything about this evening is both exquisite and bewildering and I can't decide if I want to go on with this dream or run back down the yellow-lit rock to the stable. But the stable door is closed.

SOME]fools that will laugh on earth, must weep in hell

All through his life, he swung between the ridiculous and the sublime

The color white is not always what it seems to be. Watch for white handkerchiefs, handmade altars, homemade gumbo, and light summer dresses.

I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can't have one without the other.

The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.

Richard didn't mind Gwyn being rich...Having always been poor was good preparation for being rich. Better than having always been rich...The well and all its sweet water would surely one day run dry.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grows without the thorn

So this was all you got:the zooty sideburns and masturbator's pallor of an old Ted in a black suit and the secular obsequies.

All nights should be so dark, all winters so warm, all headlights so dazzling. The

Only after seeing the winter, do you comprehend the richness of summer. This was a big theme, and one I could confidently do: the infinite variety of nature.

which We have blessed, that We might show him some of Our Signs.'12 In contrast, the importance of Jerusalem for ews derived from the site of their two destroyed Temples, towards which the Jews still pray daily. Jerusalem, not mentioned in the Koran, is mentioned

Excessive brightness drove the poet into darkness. (essay : Hölderlin And The Essence Of Poetry, chapter from my copy of The origin of the work of art)

One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.

It hardly sounds like France," he said. "Paris never was France," she said.

She left home in a huff of tears and landed in Chicago. That soaring city on Lake Michigan suited her outspoken, rebellious ways more than the delicately mannered, cultured city of Charleston ever had.

His mother, in contrast, prayed in church.

The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?

Edward describing Angeline's bonnet) Then it is overbright and those colors should never been seen togther upon the same person, not to mention the same garment . he said. And it actually suits you perfectly. It suits your character.

Life is made up of opposing pairs -- life and death, love and hatred, happiness and misery, light and darkness, and on and on into infinity. Finding balance and contentment is like trying to walk a tightrope between all those opposites without falling off on one side or the other and believing that life must be all light or all darkness, when neither one is truth in itself. Imogene