Quotes About Contrast

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

A great book is like great evil.

The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.

The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

I'm a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world.

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.

Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else

I think it's great when dramatic actors do lighter, funny roles.

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

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

Next to the highest peak of happiness, there's the deepest gap of pain.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

In order for the light of gratitude and happiness to shine so brightly, the darkness of how it could be worse must be present.

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.