Quotes About Contrast

You are the sun, and I'm the moon. In your shadow I can shine.

The macabre melodies were a surreal audible example of just who I'd been before and a stark contrast to who I was now.

The heart is the anchor to all things, be it love to hate, or light to dark.

He is the one pocket of warmth in a sea of ice.

We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones, and win against better rivals.

Wisdom in the young is as unattractive as frivolity in the elderly.

I have the fondest memories of time spent in places called ugly, the most boring ones of places called scenic.

It was a different feeling: it is hard to focus on a conversation, especially when it is mathematical, when you have just personally earned several hundreds of times the annual salary of the researcher trying to tell you that you are wrong, by betting against his representation of the world.

It is the appearance of inconsistency, and not its absence, that makes people attractive.

If you want to understand how vapid are the current modernistic arguments (and understand your existential priorities), consider the difference between lions in the wild and those in captivity. Lions in captivity live longer; they are technically richer, and they are guaranteed job security for life, if these are the criteria you are focusing on …

Beauty is enhanced by unashamed irregularities; magnificence by a façade of blunder

Just look at how different the large stone is from the pebbles:

What a contrast with the other traders who lacked polish!

What emerges from the minority rule is more likely to be black-and-white, binary rules.

The good is mostly in the absence of bad";

it is easier for your brain to detect differences rather than absolutes

it seems that we notice differences between versions rather than commonalities.

The good is not as good as the absence of bad.

Breaking a fast feels like the exact opposite of a hangover.*

He looked solid, like an oar, whereas Jesse—well, she decided, Jesse was like water: thin, and quick.

La grande courtisane, la petite sainte.

The union two abysses does not produce a height.

Blessed are all simple emotions, be they dark or bright! It is the lurid intermixture of the two that produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions.