Quotes About Contrast

Opposites are joined at the hip. Night and day, poisons and pleasures, innovation and destruction are usually different facets of the very same thing. [...] Opposites work together in the very opposite of the way they seem - not tearing each other to bits or threatening to annihilate each other.

I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.

She moved as lightly as a mote of dust gamboling in a sunbeam passing through the stained glass window of a French Gothic cathedral. Her breasts stood up proudly like twin tin soldiers. Looking at her made him feel an uncontrollable urge to vomit forth his innermost feelings, straight at her.

Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry" Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle That while you watched turned to pieces of snow Riding a gradient invisible From silver aslant to random, white, and slow. There came a moment that you couldn't tell. And then they clearly flew instead of fell.

Cuba coule en flammes au milieu du lac Léman pendant que je descends au fond des choses.

It was a nice night. A pleasant evening. There seemed to be stars somewhere and it was easy to avoid stepping in the garbage and dog shit on the streets. A truly beautiful night. Tony

Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.

This campus was an island of quiet in the city's roar, and at night it was an island of dark in the city's blaze.

I wish" assumes that I know what is the opposite of my present experience.

Teas vary as much in appearance as the different faces of men.

A hotdog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz

Atkins knows two kinds of birds: seagulls and the ones that aren't seagulls.

The city] somehow managed to wear its decadence with a certain amount of grace; the anomaly of high culture in the midst of squalor is a kind of dandyism.

Leanoardo wrote that a painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. Most painters do the opposite, starting with a whitewash and adding the shadows last. But Paul, who knows Leonardo so well you'd thing the old man slept on the bottom bunk, understands the value of starting with the shadows. The only things people can ever know about you are the ones you let them see.

And how did you find the East?' 'It's a shit-hole. But it's our shit-hole.

What divine law is it, Luis Quinn wondered, that where the birds are fantastical in color and plumage their song offends the ear, yet at home the dowdy blackbird could wring the heart?

He is a gross man-mountain balanced on strangely tiny feet. Not fat, vast.

Humans are not made for endless light. Humans need their darknesses.

And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.

How about it, an Iceberg with a warm heart?

The French differentiate between loving and liking this way: You like because of; you love in spite of.

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

Two people can illustrate crudity to you. The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone. The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one.

Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.