Quotes About Contrast

He had seen the insides of jaggedly ripped-open dead people. He knew, for instance, what brains looked like spilling out of somebody's head. In the context of this, much of what went on in normal life seemed wholly and disturbingly ridiculous.

Alchemists sometimes say that Buddhism starts with fire while Taoism starts with water."134

When the dark is at rest, the light begins to move.

This new dialect of England's ruling class differed markedly from the speech ways of American colonists, to whom it seemed contrived and pretentious.

As he found beauty in the hamburger, he thought hot dogs unattractive—both aesthetically and commercially.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Foster golf club and cemetery - Only one stroke away from each other...

Humour was often attached to cruelty, it seemed, and cruelty troubled Pino Fratelli.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

In contrast to Genesis chapters 2 and 3, where the tone is more intimate, the context more homely, and the centre of attention is on human relationships,

Light never shined on a man like me and that was certain. In a lot of ways, that made men like Daddy the lucky ones to have only ever known the darkness. Knowing only darkness, a man doesn't have to get his heart broken in search of the light. I envied him for that.

I said he's the best at what he does. Not at what I do.

Heitor sipped his tea, a dainty counterpoint to the violent topic.

If we frame every situation in terms of right and wrong, we never have to wrestle with complexity; if we define the world in narrow bands of black and white, we don't have to parse out endless shades of gray.

She saw more melody in a differential equation than in a piece by Beethoven.

how the sensational always sticks in the mind and stands out at the expense of the ordinary, which – maybe precisely because it is so ordinary – tells us something more significant about the real world.

If joy could express itself with the same force as pain,

If joy could express itself with the same force as pain," he said.

Where a bad tree thrives, a good tree will flourish. But where no tree at all can be found, nothing will grow.

Cold-blooded murders are frightfully common here. Some kill people in order to be allowed to wear the red tail feathers of a parrot in their hair, and yet they are not ugly like the West Coast Negroes, for many men have as finely formed heads as could be found in London. We English, if naked, would make but poor figures beside the strapping forms and finely shaped limbs of Manyuema men and women.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children. Life is the other way around