Quotes About Contrast

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

Those who do not know what love is liken it to beauty. Those who claim to know what love is liken it to ugliness.

Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

The gravedigger looks like Santa Claus, and I don't believe for a minute he doesn't know it.

There'll be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes there'll be sorrow

I have a tremendous joie de vivre... alternating with irritability of course.

An aim, an ambition, provides the structure necessary for action. An aim provides a destination, a point of contrast against the present, and a framework, within which all things can be evaluated. An aim defines progress and makes such progress exciting. An aim reduces anxiety, because if you have no aim everything can mean anything or nothing, and neither of those two options makes for a tranquil spirit.

If you lean too far in one direction, something else in you leans equally far in the other.

El punto negro en la parte blanca y el blanco en la parte negra indican la posibilidad de transformación: solo cuando todo parece seguro puede irrumpir lo desconocido de forma brutal e inesperada.

Gee, I wasn't as up on my Native American traditions as the chick who used to call herself Faun fucking Windsong even though she was fifteen sixteenths as lily-white as me. Imagine that.

Now I knew how women felt when they thought they were going to get a diamond ring and ended up with an onion ring

It's always been weird to imagine Jacob dating Crash, but now that Red was in the picture, maybe I could see it. We all have our types, and maybe Crash thrived best against a backdrop of self-righteousness.

To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.

Did you really JUST fall, Jeffrey? Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPITAL LETTERS all the time? Why am I the only calm one?

Era tan guapa que dolía. Una muñeca todavía perfecta, al borde de la rotura que la vida y la miseria le impondrían.

Por fora água parada, por dentro uma fogueira acesa.

Az orvos csak annyit tud, hogy szépen beszél meg rondán ír.

Antes, cada minuto era alegre, vivía cantando, con los pies en un baile constante. Ahora, cada alegría costaba una tristeza.

Aquilo não é uma mulher, é uma quarta-feira de Cinzas, termina com a alegria de qualquer um".

al verla pienso] en una flor de jardín, auténtica, despidiendo su aroma, en medio de un montón de flores de papel...

Custava-lhe esforço aquela decência tranqüila, aquela face calma — nervosa, no cansaço da noite maldormida, da luta inglória contra o desejo em brasa de seu ventre. Por fora água parada, por dentro uma fogueira acesa.

Mas o que é uma donzela, tola e ignorante em seu desejo, se comparada a uma viúva, cujo anseio é feito de conhecimento e de ausência, de contenção e de penúria, de fome e de jejum, é lúcido e insolente?