Quotes About Contrast

I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was bad but not dull.

I'm full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry.

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly

Todo en él era viejo excepto sus ojos.

There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light. The hell there isn't!

The melon of Castile is for self abuse. The melon of Valencia for eating.

I had try to tell the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it; as I cannot tell it now. But if you have had it you know.

Znam da no? nije isto što i dan:da su stvari razli?ite,da se ono što ?ovjek osje?a no?u,danju ne može objasniti,jer tada to ne postoji,a za osamljene ljude,kad njihova osamljenost jednom uzme maha,no? može biti vrijeme užasa.

The biggest boy was long and dark with Thomas Hudson's neck and shoulders and the long swimmer's legs and big feet. He had a rather Indian face and was a happy boy although in repose his face looked almost tragic.

All my life the early sun has hurt my eyes, he thought. Yet they are still good. In the evening I can look straight into it without getting the blackness. It has more force in the evening too. But in the morning it is painful.

In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference

Durante o dia, nada mais fácil do que mostrar que não se dá importância, mas, à noite, é diferente.

What hast thou against the onion? The odor. Nothing more. Otherwise it is like the rose.

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull.

Pobre todo el mundo —dijo Hadley—. Ricos los gatos que no tienen dinero.

And what happened?' 'Much,' the woman said. 'Much. And all of it ugly. Even that which was glorious.

I think you have more fun as a human being even though it is much more painful.

There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light. The hell there isn't! I

But the world they were in was not the world he was in.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

I tried to tell about the night and the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it; as I cannot tell it now. But if you have had it you know.

My good friend the Governor said I could settle down at Port Stanley and take things quietly for a few weeks. The street of that port is about a mile and a half long. It has the slaughterhouse at one end and the graveyard at the other. The chief distraction is to walk from the slaughterhouse to the graveyard. For a change one may walk from the graveyard to the slaughterhouse.