Quotes about Contrast

All those paintings of women, in art galleries, surprised at private moments. Nymph Sleeping. Susanna and the Elders. Woman bathing, one foot in a tin tub - Renoir, or was it Degas? both, both women plump. Diana and her maidens, a moment before they catch the hunter's prying eyes. Never any paintings called Man Washing Socks in Sink.)

Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn?

not the shore but an aquarium filled with exhausted water and warm seaweed

Laura was flint in a nest of thistledown. I say flint, not stone: a flint has a heart of fire.

Laura was flint in a nest of thistledown. I say flint, not stone: a flint has a heart of fire.

I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

The difference between God and the Devil, is that God creates and organizes, while the whole study of the Devil is to convince children that light meat tastes good.

When I think about our lives here, I usually come to the conclusion that we live in a paradise compared to the Jews who aren't in hiding. All the same, later on, when everything has returned to normal, I'll probably wonder how we, who always lived in such comfortable circumstances, could have "sunk" so low.

Death to life is crown or shame.

I'm nothing like Romeo in real life.

Is there not in these words of our Lord a latent reference to the history of man's fall, and a designed contrast from the first tree? Just as by the act of "eating" man lost his spiritual life, so by an act of "eating" man now obtains spiritual and eternal life!

The development of wickedness is one thing; the presence of any measure of holiness or virtue is another.