Quotes About Contrast

Todo era bonito (y nada dolía).

It is a library of possibility. And death is the opposite of possibility. Understand?

a monster who meets a miracle would see a monster'.

It's dull. It's the dullest life you can imagine. Here, you have pain, and loss, that's the price. But the rewards can be wonderful, Gulliver.

sadness of the memories weighed more and lasted longer than the moments of happiness themselves.

The quiet made her realise how much noise there was elsewhere in the world. Here, noise had meaning.

I soon discovered the Hat and Feathers was a misleading name. In it there was no hat, and absolutely no feathers. There were just heavily inebriated people with red faces laughing at their own jokes. This, I soon discovered, was a typical pub. The 'pub' was an invention of humans living in England, designed as compensation for the fact that they were humans living in England. I rather liked the place.

Buster never cracks a smile. Ever. No matter what. That's what really makes it funny.

Random violence makes the news precisely because it is so rare, routine kindness does not make the news precisely because it is so commonplace. (104)

Let the long contention cease!Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

The day in its hotness,The strife with the palm;The night in her silence,The stars in their calm.

Love could be a weakness. But it could also be a strength. Love coupled with hate formed a perfect whole. The yin and yang of his new being. An

sometimes it pays to be the only normal one in a town of vampires. I'm practically invisible.

One man's trash is another man's treasure. And that is true not only of things but also of experiences and problems.

Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his clothes and has an amazing wardrobe. If we're going out I'll turn up at his house and say, 'I haven't got anything to wear ' and he'll tut and sigh and then lend me something swanky.

Small clients, by contrast, are intellectually challenging, enjoyable to work for, and miserably unprofitable.

We can never comprehend the depths of gloom of night in the light of day".

excitation/depression, constriction/relaxation, atrophy/torpor.

The simple beauty of the yin/yang system is based on the observation that everything has two sides. The word yin designates the shady side of a mountain; the word yang represents the sunny side. By extension, yin came to mean all things dark, cool, damp, hidden, withdrawn, interior, feminine, while yang represented all things light, warm, dry, exteriorized, visible, masculine.

lasting happiness is boring because it is always the same, while suffering is more exciting because it is always different.

Happiness is thus viewed as being just a deceptively calm moment in the middle of a storm.

Algunos piensan que hay que sentirse a disgusto, que en la vida debe haber "días nulos" para apreciar mejor la riqueza de instantes de dicha y "beneficiarse de lo agradable del contraste". Pero ¿son sinceros los que afirman cansarse de una felicidad duradera? ¿De qué clase de felicidad hablan? ¿De la euforia que degenera en aburrimiento, de los placeres que decaen, de los goces que languidecen?.

Sometimes you have to get sad before you get happy 'cause otherwise how would you know the difference?

Looking up, Missouri saw a formation of low-flying P-47's on the horizon, heading up the coast from Naples...Sergeant Missouri laughed aloud. "They're sending us the Air Force, Chico, and we made it with a donkey," he said.