Quotes About Contrast

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

The heart of an empire is often beautiful to behold—and cruel to contemplate.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness

If you're photographing in color you show the color of their clothes - if you use black and white, you will show the color of their soul.

The difference between weeds and flowers is the flowers are the easiest ones to pull out.

Her eyes look heavy, but her smile is light enough to raise an entire army off their feet.

I always knew I would look back on my tears and laugh but I never tought I would look back on the laughter and cry

Everybody wants happiness, nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

If you see a whole thing — it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

Our laughter is only a note or two short of a scream of fear.

Factory windows are always broken Other windows are let alone. No one throws through the chapel-window The bitter, snarling, derisive stone.

The Dandelion" O dandelion, rich and haughty, King of village flowers! Each day is coronation time, You have no humble hours. I like to see you bring a troop To beat the blue-grass spears, To scorn the lawn-mower that would be Like fate's triumphant shears. Your yellow heads are cut away, It seems your reign is o'er. By noon you raise a sea of stars More golden than before.

I don't know how it is in mathematics, but in life the best proof for something lies in its opposite.

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.

balancing opposing influences

It seems delightfully incongruous,' he wrote from Armentie'res, 'that there should be good shops and fine buildings and comfortable beds less than half an hour's walk from the trenches

He was her death—and yet, her blade of life, of clarity, to cut through the thick roiling swamp of personal darkness.

But" is always preferable to "however," Except in the rare cases where "however" is preferable to "but," Which

So even in hell, there are clowns.

This might be one of the few basements in Southern California, but it was clearly being used the way Juan's family used the garage.

The light shining through was a rainbow from hell.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.