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Quotes About Contrast

Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I see the world, it makes me puke, But then I look at you and know, that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.
~ Morrissey
Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!
~ Anthony Marais, Delusionism
If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.
~ Rachel Cusk, Outline
I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.
~ Charlie Cox
I love a bit of drama. That's a bad thing. I can flip really quickly.
~ Adele
That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
~ Alice Hoffman
Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper.
~ Amanda Hocking
I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine, But O, he lives in the moony light! I thought to find Love in the heat of day, But sweet Love is the comforter of night.
~ William Blake
...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.
~ Colum McCann
I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld.
~ D. H. Lawrence
My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
~ Edmund Spenser
Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.
~ Jodi Picoult
I love you in my dreams, but not in real life.
~ Mason Cooley
I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.
~ Sandra Brown
But don't you find the concept of love unusual? (Alix) Not at all. Love I understand completely. It's hatred that puzzles me. I don't comprehend finding pleasure in cruelty. (Vik)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dignity and love do not blend.
~ Suzanne Curchod
anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]
~ Gore Vidal
I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south you're going from snow to palm trees.
~ Greg Lake
With love I draw what I hate.
~ Harold Town
Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of life that held everything together.
~ Harry Mulisch
Love and used Subarus were two different things. Weren't they?
~ Haruki Murakami
Any girl that's got a $500,000 table and $5 shoes, I'm in love with.
~ James Brolin