Quotes About Contrast

Een James Bond-boek is stom maar opwindend, terwijl een meesterwerk van de Vlaamse literatuur even stom maar daarbij ook nog vervelend is.

Waarom moet ieder mens geschokt en geslingerd worden tussen een wereld hier, een wereld van zavel en cement, bloed, zenuwen, telefoonpalen en zonde, mensen die geboren worden en mensen die sterven, en een andere wereld die in onze gedachten spookt zonder te weten of zoiets bestaat, bestaan heeft of ooit zal komen?

Er zijn twee soorten van mensen in de wereld. De ene was van een hard en verpletterend materiaal, de andere integendeel van een doorschijnender en meer sprokkere substantie.

Louis Sébastien Mercier

Pasture, stone wall, and steeple, What most perturbs the mind: The heart-rending homely people, Or the horrible beautiful kind?

There is the mundane, then there is the unthinkable – between the two, a chasm into which our imaginations tumble.

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

Light is every bit as challenging as dark. We can discover a great deal about ourselves by looking at beauty.

Despite himself, Beauvoir laughed. "There is strong shadow where there is much light." ... But most he loved a happy human face.

But odd as his family might be, they were nothing compared to this. In fact, that was one of the great comforts of his job. At least his family compared well to people who actually killed each other, rather than just thought about it.

Dreadful deeds were obvious. The divine was often harder to see.

The mess in the drawers was in contrast to the neat desktop. Many people's lives were like that. The neat room and the messy closet. The well-ordered counters and the chaos in the cabinets.

Despite himself, Beauvoir laughed. "There is strong shadow where there is much light.

But then, Armand Gamache thought, where else would you find darkness but right up against the light? What greater triumph for evil than to ruin a garden?

Peter bent and examined the pile. Only country people, thought Beauvoir, were endlessly fascinated by shit. Country people and parents.

Some people keep their darkness inside, and some hide their light. You, mon ami, almost certainly have a croissant in there.

I don't know, Armand. It made me sick. And sad. And glad I live far—" "From the madding crowd?" Vincent Gilbert smiled and nodded. "Yes. I peek out every now and then, then scuttle back to my little cabin, where I hope so-called civilization won't find me.

Ironic, really, that from a blind they should suddenly see so clearly.

where else would you find darkness but right up against the light? What greater triumph for evil than to ruin a garden?

I have seen flowers come in stony places, And kind things done by men with ugly faces,' Gamache said,

No one could look at the beautiful young man now. They dropped their eyes from the scalding sight. From the eclipse. As all that love turned into hate.

could be so much deliberate cruelty and so much kindness in one species.

she'd forgotten snow could be quite so beautiful. Snow, in her experience, was something that needed to be removed. It was a chore that fell from the sky. But

I see you know your art. Yes. Not many realize that it's the play of light and dark, of subtleties and extremes—