Quotes About Contrast

Life: An affirmative between two negatives.

So much light, along with the darkness, it's life — just scary and joyous life!

Your path is illuminated by the light Yet darkness lets the stars shine bright.

Why is Monday so far from Friday, and yet Friday is so near to Monday?

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure, Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern society in a habitat unfit to grow a tomato.

Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

A rose in sunlight is nature. A rose in the dark is poetry.

If it is dark, all men are black.

...beautiful as the rainbow, that smiling daughter of the storm...

Many things happen rain or shine, but rainbows are so special they happen rain AND shine!

Let the rose be neighbour with the thorn.

Tho' I fancy'd the rose, yet I dreaded the thorn.

No more be grieved at that which thou hast done: Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud...

My life is a twisted rainbow.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

and often Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" before coming to Denton, ideas and images culled from a hundred magazine stories and as many movies. Where were the convertibles, the secret bottles of liquor, the gay young men and their wild girl friends?

Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance.

You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Across the Bay, lightning walked on awkward stilts

I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.

Whenever life gets too good, whenever fate hands you something wonderful, something else gets taken away.