Quotes About Contrast

The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there.

The audience burst into applause and hallelujahs. I kept trying to make sense of it, and kept coming up short. Here were people who routinely used their computers to stay in touch with their friends and get the news of the day, people who took weather satellites and lung transplants for granted, people who expected to live lives thirty and forty years longer than those of their great-grandparents. Here they were, falling for a story that made Santa and the Tooth Fairy look like gritty realism.

If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

Show me good, i show you better, show me bad, i show you worse...

There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose.

Just like life, it was only the contrast with darkness that had made it seem brighter.

Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridiculous. I think that's what life is like, that's what interests me.

It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.

How perfectly evil spirit and beauty can combine in one person, harmonically supplementing each other.

Life is beautiful in all its colors, even the darker ones, they're here for a reason.

Looking at her always reminded me of a rose that was dripping blood. I always felt it was drawing all the life from inside. Just to look beautiful on the outside.

It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude... nothing in between..

The world is big in some ways, and so small in others.

God sometimes uses ugly vessels to carry beautiful things.

Isn't it ironic that a nightmare can masquerade as a dream?

A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.

A flower in a desert still has no reason to envy a thorn in a rainforest.

A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly.

An angel who makes you cry is better than a devil who makes you smile.

If stars avoided the dark, they would not be visible at night.

As paint needs a canvass for its beauty to show, stars need darkness for their splendor to shine.

If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

Love side, hate side, never in between