Quotes About Contrast

There's only a thin line between love and hate, and sometimes it feels like we're dancing on that line.

A few smiles packed in endless tears, a moment of love with pain so severe.

When hate turns to love it's a wonderful thing but, when love turns to hate it's a deadliest thing.

We know what is it like to be happy, for we have felt sadness. We know what it is like to hope, for we have been hopeless. We know what it is like to feel the light, for we have felt darkness. We know what it is like to love, for we have hated.

A young man named for a god of fucking rode his palomino next to my dun.

I don't see why I should disguise the magnificence of my education when you do nothing to hide the paucity of yours.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.

Wie falsch und trügerisch die Welt ist! Zuerst lockt sie bunt und glitzert vor Schönheit, dann tut Mama den Mund auf, und alles verwandelt sich in Bazillen und Gelatine.

Those like Brasini and those who are not like Brasini. Those who would take your face in their hands and kiss you like in the films and those who would never in ten million years take your face in their hands and kiss you like in the films. ...You are definitely a Brasini, sir. ...the Brasini theory,....

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

Regal Black Swan told me that in this world of personalities, there is always a duality. I had interpreted it as good versus bad, slavery or freedom, conformity and its opposite. But that is not the case. It is not black or white; it is always shades of gray. And most important, all the gray is moving in a progressive pattern back to the originator. I teased about our age and told him I needed another fifty years just for comprehension.

Everything in the world cooks down to two. Either- or, if-then, yes-no, night-day, good-bad. You all believe in twos so much I wonder if any of you can count to three.

sadness is not the absence of happiness, but the opposite of it.

For you to say that sadness is not the absence of happiness, but the opposite of it.

I laugh because me been dancing with shadow in the dawn and in the night. Even in broad, bright daylight we searching for the dark.

Your light blacker than black. I know you.

There was a beautiful duality to her energy, both girlish and boyish.

why is it that happiness can disappear in an instant but sadness stays around forever?

Wherever there's light, there's bugs.

I had come to appreciate the reality of solitude and the illusion of community that bars provide.

Mortal love is but the licking of honey from thorns…" There was laughter again then, and applause, and a cry, "Well sung!

Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. In the dramas, not Mensah's family.

Expecting it and having it happen were two different things, something I learned the first time I got shot to pieces.