Quotes About Contrasts

No author who has ever lived has shown such powers of insight into the variety of life - the differences, the contrasts, the collisions of persons and things and situations, each apprehended in its absolute uniqueness and conveyed with a degree of directness and a precision of concrete imagery to be found in no other writer

You explode, if that's more to your taste, shoot yourself all around in endless darts, be prodigal, spendthrift, reckless: I shall implode, collapse inside the abyss of myself, towards my buried centre, infinitely.

A tree cannot grow in the sky, nor clouds be in the deep sea, nor fish live in the fields, nor can blood be in sticks nor sap in rocks.

The worst and the best things have the tendency of occupying the same positions in our minds, so incline your hearts to the best things.

Life is too ironic to understand fully. It takes sadness to know happiness, noise to distinguish silence and a broken heart to find true love.

Life is full of happy and sad moments, smiling and moody faces ,rights and wrongs, loves and hates. But what a wonderful LIFE it is.

...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing.

Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate—love commands a vast army of moods. Hoping for victory, limping from the latest skirmish, lovers enter the arena once again. Sitting still, we are as daring as gladiators.

Few years ago, we were up north in Canada, in Alberta, this one-street town off the Pouce Coupe River? Dark the whole time, October to March, and fuck-all to do except read and listen to CBC radio. Had to drive fifty klicks to do our washing. Still —" he laughed – "loads better than Ukraine. Miami Beach, compared.

Sad are those who truly understand, for the world is based upon the many sad truths that drive the few happy moments.

Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff.

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.

Its hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

North and south Italy is a nation of contrasts. Most of the industries and businesses are in the north, where people can earn much money. The south is less prosperous and some farming people, such as this man from Sicily, may have to struggle to make a living. Even so, the average standard of living in Italy is one of the highest in Europe.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.

Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

Love can come in all kinds of forms. But so can hate.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

Fique a saber, padre, que os opostos são os mais iguais. Não acredita, veja: o fogo não é quem se parece mais ao gelo? Ambos queimam e, nos dois, só através da morte o homem pode entrar.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.