Juxtaposition Quotes

“Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.”
― Max Ernst

“There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“We have both been talking about you. Cosette loves you so dearly! You must not forget that you have a chamber here, we want nothing more to do with the Rue de l'Homme Armé. We will have no more of it at all. How could you go to live in a street like that, which is sickly, which is disagreeable, which is ugly, which has a barrier at one end, where one is cold, and into one cannot enter? You are to come and install yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. She means to lead us all by the nose, I warn you. You have your own chamber here, it is close to ours, it opens on the garden; the trouble with the clock has been attended to, the bed is made, it is all ready, you have only to take possession of it. Near your bed Cosette has placed a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to it: 'Stretch out your arms to him.' A nightingale comes to the clump of acacias opposite your windows every spring. In two months more you will have it. You will have its nest on your left and ours on your right. By night it will sing, and by day Cosette will prattle. Your chamber faces due South. Cosette will arrange your books for you, your Voyages of Captain Cook and the other,— Vancouver's and all your affairs. I believe that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed upon a corner of honor for that. You have conquered my grandfather, you suit him. We will live together. Do you play whist? you will overwhelm my grandfather with delight if you play whist. It is you who shall take Cosette to talk on the days when I am at the courts, you shall give her your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely resolved to be happy. And you shall be included in it, in our happiness, do you hear, father? Come, will you breakfast with us to-day?"

"Sir," said Jean Valjean, "I have something to say to you. I am an ex-convict.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“From far below mounted the clink and tinkle of distant masonry work, and a sudden train passed between gardens, and a heraldic butterfly volant en arrière, sable, a bend gules, traversed the stone parapet, and John Shade took a fresh card.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

“Life and light made up the interior, the realm of daytime. The exterior was darkness and night.”
― Chess Desalls, Travel Glasses

“And suffering we know breeds images, it breeds the most beautiful images of all.”
― Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato

“To violate beauty
is the essence of sexual desire.
To procreate is the essence of decay.”
― Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy

“Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler: In Four Volumes

“Life’s insistence on juxtaposing darkness and light would never cease to amaze him.”
― Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

“It’s unnerving, realizing how much I have in common with someone I spent so much time plotting to destroy.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow

“A knife plunged into the center
of summer. Air

and terror, which become teeth together.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains

“The urgent warnings:

The dreamy terror of certain summer mornings.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains

“Maybe joy is even more potent when you've known the depth of its opposite.”
― Faith Gardner, The Second Life of Ava Rivers

“Frack To Bont by Stewart Stafford

Rip The Jacker,
Killy The Bid,
Ken F. Johnnedy,
But not Saesar, Cid.

Meddie Frercury,
Kanley Stubrick,
Lohn Jennon,
But no Magger of Jick.

Cilly Bonnolly.
Cave Dhappelle,
Pichard Rryor,
No Relch of Waquel.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved”
― Stewart Stafford

“Life's juxtapositions..
The complex weave of chaos and harmony, where incongruity and compatibility compose the 'melody of existence'.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul