Quotes About Contrast

As it turns out, that persistence is a requirement. Thus, he would tell me, you need the dark to show the light, so you shouldn't curse darkness. You needed death to define life.

Ein Moment unfassbarer Gewalt - ebenso unverfälscht schön und köstlich wie grausam.

There is nothing that exists that has only one side, even a piece of paper thin as it is has two sides.

It should hurt, shouldn't it? Shouldn't it hurt to be ripped in half? But it didn't. It didn't hurt the least little bit. Cold. She felt only cold. But the warm rope of her guts laying against her face felt good. Warm. She took comfort in the warmth.

It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers

I've seen excitement, and I've seen boredom. And boredom was best.

Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward? How could they live with it? And yet they did, and even seemed to find enjoyment in it, when surely the only sensible course would be to despair. Amazing. To feel you were a tiny living thing, sandwiched between two cliffs of darkness. How could they stand to be alive?

Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist.

The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski slopes, but young, sulky, adolescent mountains. They held secret ravines and merciless crevices. One yodel out of place would attract, not the jolly echo of a lonely goatherd, but fifty tons of express-delivery snow.

I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence of good. I think there is more to this theory, but I tend to burst out laughing at this point.

No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable.

She couldn't do any worse, but then, he couldn't do better. So maybe it balanced out.

Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.

No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Hrun the Barbarian, who was practilly an academic by Hub standards in that he could think without moving his lips.

Everybody present laughed nervously, except Lord Vetinari, who just laughed.

The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side.

She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet taller; but she was not Her. The Egregious Professor of Grammar and Usage would have corrected this to she was not she, which would have caused the Professor of Logic to spit out his drink.

La luz cree que viaja más deprisa que nada, pero se equivoca. Por muy rápido que vaya la luz, siempre se encuentra con que la oscuridad ha llegado antes y la está esperando.

A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.

Contrary to popular belief, the wings of demons are the same as the wings of angels, although they're often better groomed.

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

It's Tchaikovsky's 'Another One Bites the Dust,'" said Crowley, closing his eyes as they went through Slough.

Something wonderful, if you look the long view, was about to happen. If you took the short or medium view, something horrible was about to happen.