Quotes About Contrast

Lovely flowers sometimes bloom in ugly places.

One man's thorn is another man's rose.

One who loves roses cannot avoid thorns.

Roses have thorns but are worth more than daises.

The darkest skies color the brightest stars.

The most beautiful roses sometimes have the sharpest thorns.

Weeds blend in; roses stand out.

This snowy morning That black crow I hate so much. . . But he's so beautiful!

Poor boy - leaves moon-viewing for rice-grinding.

Cormorant fishing: How stirring, How saddening

Lightning – heron-cry stabs darkness.

Under one roof, courtesans and monks asleep— moon and bush clover

people often choose to expect the worst of an upcoming experience in hopes of creating a more favorable contrast between their expectations and reality.

Einstein said the way to understand relativity was to imagine the difference between love and pain. "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour.

Actually, depression can be exacerbated by things being all right externally, because the gulf between what you are feeling and what you are expected to feel becomes larger.

She was antimatter, with added self-pity.

Happy Christmas!' the man said. 'Yes', Charles Dickens said, who couldn't bring himself to say 'Happy Christmas' back. 'Isn't it the best of times?' the man went on. The cat gave a gentle miaow of disagreement in his arms as Charles Dickens nodded. 'Yes. And the worst.

Back in Mother Ivy's time I would have been obliged to cook you gingerbread and show you my spickle dancing, and yet now I have permission to chop you up into little pieces. I cry myself to sleep every night, and feel dead inside, but society is definitely improving.

So heaven is life with the good bits taken out, and with an all-white backdrop.

It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her. But then I reminded myself that when galaxies collide they pass right through.

I, for instance, discovered little moments of happiness, or humor, within despair. I realized things weren't always one thing or another thing. It was sometimes both. And as soon as we notice all that space inside us, we have a new perspective. Yes, there is room for a lot of pain but there is room for other things too.

Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty.

It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her.

did notice that some of the buildings were larger and—relatively speaking—more ornately designed than others. Temples to the orgasm, I imagined.