Quotes About Contrast

Garde tes songes, les sages n'en ont pas d'aussi beaux que les fous

people run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.

i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.

For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

the beautiful are found in the edge of a room crumpled into spiders and needles and silence and we can never understand why they left,they were so beautiful. they dont make it, the beautiful die young and leave the ugly to their ugly lives.

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.

I see a bright portion under the overhead light that shades into darkness and then into darker darkness and I can't see beyond that.

I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds

It's the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife.

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

TV can make me ill in five minutes, but I can look at an animal for hours and find nothing but grace and glory, life as it should be.

you are on the freeway threading through traffic now, moving both towards something and towards nothing at all as you punch the radio on and get Mozart, which is something, and you will somehow get through the slow days and the busy days and the dull days and the hateful days and the rare days, all both so delightful and so disappointing because we are all so alike and so different.

Yet for all that I have had more joy than any of them, they were positive and depressed, and I am negative and happy.

You boys can keep your virgins, give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

I am bitter sometimes but the taste has often been sweet.

Shakespeare never did this.

Gathered around me were the weak instead of the strong, the ugly instead of the beautiful, the losers instead of the winners. It looked like it was my destiny to travel in their company through life. That didn't bother me so much as the fact that I seemed irresistible to these dull idiot fellows.

I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired.

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Jag föddes för att kränga rosor på de dödas avenyer

We were in rich territory. I had forgotten that some people lived quite well while most others ate their own shit for breakfast.