Quotes About Contrast

and the amusements of London seemed as flat as soda-water that has been standing in the sun.

A child's laughter is the greatest sound in the world. A child's laughter in a cornfield is the creepiest sound in the world. --

lo amargo llega antes que lo dulce;

For Rome is sometimes cold and rainy in the winter in spite of all the naked statues.

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What I did not understand, as I walked down Fifth Avenue that afternoon, was how a world that had seemed so dark could, in a few minutes, become so sweet.

Tortoise Mind." "Hare Brain." They need each other. But keep them separate!

It is unfortunate that they cannot witness the sight of a fresh cow femur sliced in half by a single stroke of a sharp replica sword.

Suddenly, with a cynical frankness, he began comparing his feelings for these two girls. 'The truth is,' he said to himself, 'I love them both! I love Gerda because she's so simple, and because I've slept with her all these months ; and I love Christie because she's so subtle, and because I've never slept with her!

It was as if cowslips and cow-droppings mingled with sea-horses and cowry-shells.

A semi-cirque of flying rooks, just seven in number, flapped with creaking wings across the top of the tower, making their way northwest towards Mark Moor. Little did they reck of the cracking of the skull of a man upon a patch of grass! As for a tiny earth beetle that was foraging for its insect prey just there, it scurried away from Tom's blood as if it had been a lake of brimstone.

Mary's thoughts were like a rain of bitterness and a dew of sweetness gathered in the hollows of a tree-root. A brimming over from them all would have escaped and vanished if she had tried to express them in any sort of speech.

Life is very confusing. One day we are the happiest person in the world and tomorrow we are most lonely in the world.

When I saw how much pain love could bring I felt sorry for those in love, when I saw how much joy love could bring I envied those in love.

I could name a thousand reasons why I hate you, but I could name a million reasons why I love you.

The dark of night does not come after the golden glow of the day's sun but before it.

What happens when he is your prince charming, while you are not his Cinderella.

It's painfully unbelievable how the most beautiful moment of your life with her can be so closely followed by the tears of the worst.

Some people look at your exterior and all they see is happiness but they don't know that your Interior is full of sadness.

Happiness would lose its importance if it is not be balanced by sadness.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Life is too ironic. It takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence!

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.