Quotes About Contrast

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up

The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness

Enjoy the light because it will soon get dark.

You can never have your strengths without any weakness in it.

There's a hard life for every silver spoon. There's a touch of grey for every shade of blue. That's the way that I see life. If there was nothing wrong, then there'd be nothing right.

Being on top of the world doesn't mean anything unless you know what it's like to be at the bottom.

You cannot think negatively and live positively any more than you can plant apple seeds and expect to harvest oranges.

Life is so ironic, it takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence & absence to value presence.

Without bad days, how would you be able to know what a good day is like? So be grateful about your bad day, it means that a good day is just around the corner.

Good things can be bad if you look at the dark side. Bad things can be good if you look at the bright side.

Happiness needs sadness. Success needs failure. Benevolence needs evil. Love needs hatred. Victory needs defeat. Pleasure needs pain. You must experience and accept the extremes. Because if the contrast is lost, you lose appreciation; and when you lose appreciation, you lose the value of everything.

NEVER be fooled by what you see on the outside, because on the inside it's often a different story.

In Guermantes, the narrator, admitted to the Duchesse's society after he has been cured of his infatuation with her, tends to record what he sees and hears, to note the disparity between glamour seen from a distance and the triviality it masks when encountered at close quarters.

Snaps and snails and puppy-dogs' tails, And dirty sluts in plenty, Smell sweeter than roses in young men's noses When the heart is one-and-twenty.

Hayat?m?z?n ikinci bölümünde aç??a vurdu?umuz mizac?m?z, ço?unlukla öyle olsa bile, her zaman ba?lang?çtaki mizac?m?z?n geli?mi? veya solmu?, güçlenmi? veya yumu?am?? ?ekli de?ildir; bazen de tamamen z?t bir mizaç, adeta tersyüz edilmi? bir giysidir.

in that blinding light of the beach by which social distinctions are altered,

My first impression of them had been quite the opposite: I had found them very ordinary, just like anyone else, but this was because, before actually meeting them, I had seen them, as I saw Balbec, Florence, and Parma, as magical names.

I was struck for the first time by this lack of harmony between our impressions and their normal forms of expression.

His anger was like a single musical phrase to which in an opera several lines are sung which are entirely different from one another, if one studies the words, in meaning and character, but which the music assimilates by a common sentiment.

I had been struck, as we came away, by the discovery that this young man, so generous when he was far less rich, had become so stingy.