Quotes About Contrast

As it says in Blake: "Opposition is true friendship.

Every place has two characters— every place is double. What is sublime is also fallen. What is clement is at the same time base. In the deepest darkness lies the spark of the most powerful light, and vice versa: where omnipresent clarity reigns, a pit of darkness lurks inside the seed of light.

Everything has two sides -- the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

The country blooms—a garden, and a grave.

It is a strange world that has lost children and mute lightning in it, and where two men can sit overlooking an abandoned mining town and talk in sadness and hope of building ships to whitewash far-off ocean skies.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

There might be a deceptive tendency to believe that a life born into a world of plenty should be better, more really a life than one which consists in a struggle against scarcity.

Something hard about her gives you the impression less of a beautiful woman than of a handsome young man.

En verdad que entre la Inocencia y el Mal no hay mayor separación que el grosor de una hoja de papel.

It has seemed to me in fact that those who called me lucky were incomparably more fortunate than I.

The blue sky is most beautiful when see through a prison cell window.

Some nights I saw these imbecile, lunatic prostitutes with the halo of Mary

The likable weeds and the not likable weeds looked exactly the same but were somehow clearly divided into those that seemed innocuous and those that seemed horrible. It didn't stand to reason. What a girl likes and what she hates seems rather arbitrary to me.

He's all right. Naoji's all right. Scoundrels like Naoji simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people.

Quando scoprii che il mio concetto della felicità sembrava in pieno contrasto con quello d'ogni altra persona, fu tale l'angoscia che mi dibattei gemendo insonne nel mio letto per notti e notti di seguito.

Contrasting ideas are constantly swirling around us in billions of forms, it's tough to remain vigilant, but just be you and be yourself.

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy.

To be shallow is not a sign of being wicked, nor is shallowness a sign that there are no deeps; the ocean has a shore.

Is this the kind of thing in which Jesus Christ is interested, or is it something in which the spirit that is diametrically opposed to Jesus is interested?

Chasseguet-Smirgel and Grunberger (1986) have described how psychoanalytic thinking and understanding can be transformed into an ideology or political program containing messianic and/or paranoid characteristics that are in dramatic contrast to the very nature of psychoanalytic insight.

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.