Quotes about Contrast
There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
— Isabel Allende
Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
— Bill Bailey
Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.
— Mark Twain
And from the midst of cheerless gloomI passed to bright unclouded day.
— Emily Bronte
Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.
— Ray Comfort
They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
— Martin Luther
I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.
— Thomas Merton
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.
— Karl Barth
The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured.
— Joel Osteen
When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
— Lao Tzu
She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.
— Edith Wharton
There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.
— Edith Wharton