Quotes about Contrast

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

We would eat chocolates and smoke cigarettes and read the Bible, which is the only way to do it, if you ask me. Don, the Bible is so good with chocolate. I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It is a chocolate thing.

After all, the purpose of negative stakes in a story is to contrast with the happy ending we all want to experience.

After all, the purpose of negative stakes in a story is to contrast with the happy ending we all want to experience.

It's admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren land; long heath, broth furze, any thing.

I picture myself standing between two boxes. From one the stench is unbearably brutal, bellowing out dark wisps of death. And the other box is full of white lilies. Their angelic blooms are fully stretched and sending out perfume, sweet and pure. A box of bitterness. A box of grace.

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

Described Washington as a community of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples' feet; but the sands of the real desert have no lustre in them to compensate for the servile nature of the occupation.

Love doth scathe The gentle heart, as northern blasts do roses.