Quotes About Contrast

The upper lip is like a groom, to wit: The lower lip is like his fiancee. But that which splits in two will surely split into two hundred just as easily. And everything that's been twofold is then accountable, is then no longer moot.

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

Tragedy is an unfinished comedy.

The water in which the mystic swims is the same water a madman drowns in.

We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows

They are equals, but not the same, because when you lose the tension of polarities you lose the tension of life.

And fire and ice within me fightBeneath the suffocating night.

She told me about rolling hills covered with cornfields and treeless miles of land without water. I dreamt of cornfields dotted with yellow rosebushes

The best way to imagine how big the emptiness of nature is, is to jam it with humanity.

There are celebrities in New York that no one's heard of in New Jersey. It is interested and influenced by itself.

The comforter on this bed was a dark burgundy and Jenise's lighter toned skin was enticing against it.

Dane followed the man inside and noted the opulently decorated foyer. Somebody had lots of money with zero decorating skills.

Down in lovely muck I've lain, Happy till I woke again.

Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

Pre-high tech, objects thunked and crashed and clopped, amid a thunder of drums, a tumult of trumpets. Today things beep and cheep and whistle. We have come from the roar of the lion to the chirp of the tree frog, ceaselessly bleating our identities while the frog-eating bats hover above us.

Les bouleaux sont fins et malingres. au sud de la Suède, les arbres à membres fins commencent à fleurir. Les magnolias et les cerisiers, comme des jeunes filles endimanchées dans les parcs. Les boulots ici sont fins, oui, mais n'ont rien de jeunes filles. Noueux, hirsutes et courbés comme de vieilles Laponnes, ils guettent le printemps à la lisière de la forêt.

En kaffe med mjölk och en utan, yin och yang.

Showing the light to birds of the night is like hiding it from them, because it blinds them and becomes for them more obscure than darkness.

And as man turned from the light of day, all that was left to him was the endless night. Without contrast, he threw open his arms, and darkness took hold.

About what you'd expect, was Gideon's grumpy and uncharitable thought, if you crossed John Gielgud with W. C. Fields.

The city and the outback were separated by a distance greater than miles. Then,

Your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between sweeter than any wine and as bitter as mustard greens.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart's sacred lands?