Quotes About Contrast

[It's] funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the daytime.

After every sunny day, comes a stormy night

The shadows have both been my refuge and my repulse.

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?

The more monsterous humanity gets, the more nicer monsters become

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy.

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.

You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.

I would imagine the inside of a bottle of cleaning fluid is really clean. I would imagine a vodka bottle is really drunk.

Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don't think so...retired mermaids.

I saw a man with a wooden leg and a real foot.

It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.

in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you

Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.