Quotes about Contrast

I have a son your age," he began, "but he's not at all like you. He's fair-haired, strong, and healthy. He likes to eat, drink, go to the pictures, laugh, sing, and go out with the girls. He has none of your anxiety, your unhappiness.

Half light, half shade,She stood, a sight to make an old man young.

There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good.

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.

It is as if the smallest amount of light is infinitely more powerful than massive amounts of dark.

It's possible to have emptied your savings account and be living in your friend's basement riding your bike everywhere because you can't afford a car and yet feel like you're bursting with vitality. It's also possible to have lots of money in the bank, living in the house you had custom built, going on expensive vacations to exotic places, and yet you're miserable.

First came a delightful thrill, as of something very pleasant; then a horrible remembrance.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.

As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

He's not a rough diamond - a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.