Quotes About Contrast

Das Gras war weiß vom Raureif, weiß wie die Frauen, die auf den Schwarzen Prinzen warteten, aber ihr Bann brach, sobald Meggie das Lachen der Kinder hörte. Sie bewarfen sich mit Tannenzapfen und schrien auf, wenn der Marder, nach ihnen sprang. Das Leben schien so viel stärker als der Tod, der Tod so viel stärker als das Leben. Wie Ebbe und Flut...

Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It's only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimes – if necessary – brought down for a time. Then it will rise again, as it must.

Non sembrano luoghi pericolosi» constatò mentre superavano l'ennesima casetta rosa. «Perché guardi sempre a sinistra!» le disse Dita di Polvere. «Tutte le cose hanno un lato chiaro e uno scuro. Da' un'occhiata a destra».

A bondade pode ser tão claramente identificada quanto a crueldade. Irradia luz e calor.

But beautiful was not the opposite of terrible. The two could easily coexist.

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white, and in between the moon and you, the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right. I walk in the air, between the rain, through myself and back again where? I don't know.

It boiled down to this: it's a lot harder to love than to hate. Harder to be there for those you love—to see them get older, get sick, be taken from you in sudden awful ways. Hate's dead simple. You can hate an utter stranger from a thousand miles away. It asks nothing of you. It eats you from the inside out but it takes no effort or thought at all."—Craig Davidson from Cataract City

Canada is not the party. Its the apartment above the party.

And this was the surprising thing about life on Berk. It was a bit like the sea itself. One minute it was all storms, and shipwrecks, and desperate escapes from deadly dragons, the next it was as calm, and peacefully restful, as if these things had never happened.

You see how good and evil are twisted together? Like a golden dragon bracelet snaking brightly about a person's arm.

I was thinking,' said Crusher dreamily [...] 'about LANGUAGE and how in English two negatives make a positive, but in spriteish, a double negative is still a negative. However there is NO language in which two positives make a negative ...' 'Yeah right, like THAT'S the problem,' said Xar, sarcastically. 'I hadn't thought of that!' said Crusher in gentle surprise [...]. 'You're correct, Car. Yeah, right IS a statement in English where two positives make a negative...

My real frustration with Clara, I think, was that it seemed like she should be insecure but wasn't.

Avevamo tutti l'aspetto di cadaveri: perché nulla fa pensare tanto a un morto quanto un uomo vestito da sera in pieno giorno.

E' una storia di bambini napoletani e di aviatori inglesi, dissi una storia gentile. V'è una certa gentilezza anche nella guerra. Ciò che la guerra ha di più orrendo disse Ilse è proprio quel che ha di gentile. Je n'aime pas voir sourire les monstres.

She was only really a female to him. But perhaps that was better. And after all, he was kind to the female in her, which no man had ever been. Men were very kind to the person she was, but rather cruel to the female, despising her or ignoring her altogether. Men were awfully kind to Constance Reid or to Lady Chatterley; but not to her womb they weren't kind. And he took no notice of Constance or of Lady Chatterley; he just softly stroked her loins or her breasts.

Even your joy is like a flame coming off of sadness

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

There was only this one lamp-post. Behind was the great scoop of darkness, as if all the night were there.

Because I infinitely prefer the spontaneous spite to the concocted sugaries;

It seethes and seethes, a river of darkness, putting forth lilies and snakes

Awful things men were, savage, cruel, underneath their civilization.

Here's to the thorn in the flower!

sun is anti-thought