Quotes About Contrast

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

The worst form of equality is to try to make equal things that are their reciprocal opposite complimentary.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.

You cannot experience yourself as what you are until you've encountered what you are not

Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.

My experience is the opposite.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

I feel like I always had a yin and yang experience with music. I've always been able to rock out, and then I've always had to take piano lessons, too.

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.

Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.

They've promised that dreams can come true but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams too.

The sad moment when you return to your boring and ordinary life after watching an awesome movie.

That awkward moment when I'm drunk and you're still ugly...

There is always some kind of misery when you are happy and always some kind of happiness even when you are miserable

Being happy and excited all day, and when arriving home being nervous and upset.

Im not miserable but I'm not happy. I'm not strong but I'm not weak. I'm not rude but I'm not polite. I'm not popular but I'm not a loner. I'm not sexy but I'm not horrid. I'm not dumb but I'm no genius. I'm not you but I am me. Accept it.

I hate it when I'm trying to be serious, but then I accidentally smile.

Without the bad, there would be no good. Without the sad there would be no happy. Without the pain there would be no joy. Without the hate there would be no love. Without you there would be no me. Without your eyes you wouldn't be able to see. Why cant you just see that I love you, with all my heart. That without you there isn't a me. I'm just a lost soul trying to fit into a world that I don't belong in without you.

We can complain because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

Life is all about sweet and sour, dark and bright, happy and sad... you can never appreciate the beauty of something without knowing how ugly other things are.