26 quotes found
“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”
“Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long odds. She had not hesitated to buck the Tiger, Life. Simon Iff had warned her that she was acting ...”
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
“We live in a world of contrast and its sad we are among people who cant seem to grasp the differences surrounding them.”
“Nothing exists without its opposite.”
“Normally death came at night, taking a person in their sleep, stopping their heart or tickling them awake, leading them to the bathroom with a splitting headache before pouncing and flooding their ...”
“My wretched passions were acute, smarting, from my continual, sickly irritability I had hysterical impulses, with tears and convulsions. I had no resource except reading, that is, there was nothing...”
“Some of your most powerful intentions are born in your moments of greatest contrast.”
“She falls back like a dead weight. The red hair loosens from the hair band and spreads in the colorful surface of the pillows, her white body is in sharp contrast, the gleam in her bloodshot eyes b...”
“Sacrifice and self both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.”
“What is evil?' asked the Fiend”
“Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an object to remind him of ...”
“To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow from which to distinguish the sound of joy.”
“I don't really wanna know what makes you leave, or when you'll be back.I just wanna know what will make me cry at your arrival.”
“We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.”
“Contrast is important in life. We understand what light is because we can compare it with what we know is dark. Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter. Its the very same with sadness. ...”
“In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.”
“Everywhere, even in the blackest abyss, he believed one might witness the divine. The shadows and contrastabsence itselfas important as the light and marble, for one cannot exist without the other.”
“Your lifestyle should contrast your obedience”
