Quotes about Contrast
We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.
- Aldous Huxley
Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.
- Rob Bell
I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is just my music. It's funny at the same time as it's sad.
- Stromae
Authenticity is the exact opposite of what you find in some churches.
- Rick Warren
You can't get back to power by defining your project in negative terms. But it helps to have somebody in office who represents the opposite of what you believe.
- Michael Ignatieff
I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant
- William Saroyan
The uglier the storm the lovelier the rainbow.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.
- Elie Wiesel
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.
- Elie Wiesel
Half light, half shade,She stood, a sight to make an old man young.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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.
- Jessica Ennis-Hill
such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour
- Richard Paul Evans