It takes darkness to be aware of the light.

Light can only be understood with the wisdom of darkness.

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...

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

Contrast and compliment. The blue is never more blue than it is when paired with orange. And the orange is never bluer than when eaten on a cloud in the sky.

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.

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.

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 in my surroundings which I...

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

It’s about the ways in which girls deal with anger and aggression, as opposed to the ways in which boys do. The premise is that boys tend to be more direct in their aggression –...

[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative...

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.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

In contrast to the year-end rally here driven by real estate and other domestic plays, taking a lead now are stocks which have a high correlation with the Nasdaq market.

Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn’t turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

My rage is derived from eyes so sharp they see through the idiocy being passed off as sophistication. Under the cloak of universal themes and terms such as freedom, change, and acceptance, madness ensues, being...

I likened her to the slender PSYCHÉ and judged that the perfection of her face ennobled everything unclean around her: The dusty hems of her bunched-up skirt, the worn straps of her nightshirt; the blackened...

There was a good contrast.

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...

Insane love.Loving insanity.Insanity and love…

We live in a world of contrast and it’s sad we are among people who can’t seem to grasp the differences surrounding them.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes… The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it...

It’s just such a wonderfully jarring contrast.

I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were...

The darkest night in someone’s life may be the brightest day in another person’s life. Life rests on perceptions and conceptions or missed perceptions and misconceptions. You can choose to make good things out of...

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 brain with blood....

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you’d get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you’ll never really enjoy it when...

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes”.

The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.The ocean is a place of skin, rich...

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

Short men are happy, for they can pass easily through the door. Tall men are happy, for they can stand erect and pluck oranges with their hands. Again, short men are angry, for they cannot...