Quotes about Contrast

Do you know that St Matthew mentions Hell fifteen times in fifty-two pages of my bible and St John not once?

Phuong had kept us a table at the edge of the dance-floor and the orchestra was playing some tune which had been popular in Paris five years ago. Two Vietnamese couples were dancing, small, neat, aloof, with an air of civilization we couldn't match. (I recognized one, an accountant from the Banque de

God is a great gathering force, for by his very nature he is love; but the devil's work is to sunder, to set one against the other.

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

The clash between child and adult is never so stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

to hike along a deep-rutted, pebbly lane in frail, silver-hued slippers with high French heels, is not an exhilirating experience.

Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.

when the darkness is close to us it is a friend. But when we sorter push it away from us—divorce ourselves from it, so to speak, with lantern light—it becomes an enemy.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.

Tears of joy are lighter than smiles of sorrow.

The human mind is one-sided. It can never grasp all of reality at once. When we look at things we see either the features which they have in common or the features that distinguish each of them.