Quotes About Contrast

To Tennessee Williams, children were 'no-neck monsters,' while William Wordsworth apotheosized the newborn infant as a 'Mighty Prophet Seer Blest' Most adults know the truth is somewhere in between.

Ese resol naranja de pájaros y jaulas. Ese momento casi hipnótico de desajuste cronológico en que dos mundos paralelos se superponen y por un instante se cruzan, sin reconocerse, inconsolables ambos, el primer empleado del día llevando una tartera y el último juerguista de la noche llevando una rosa teñida.

Un sangue-misto di rado si trova contento in compagnia: c'è sempre qualcosa che gli fa ombra , ma in realtà è lui che si fa ombra da se stesso, come il ladro e il tesoro, che si fanno ombra uno con l'altro

alone. A mixed-blood is seldom content in company: there's always something that casts a shadow on him, but in reality it's he who casts a shadow, like the thief and the treasure, which cast a shadow on one another.

Six dollars," Matt muttered as a sharp stone cut into his linen-bound foot. I could spend that much in six minutes at the mall! Not that there is a mall anywhere near here , he thought gloomily, looking into the darkened woods. What I wouldn't give to see a mall right now, with heat and electric lights and restaurants and shoe stores! But that's all two hundred years away.

She's no angel. He's no saint.

En un mundo sin melancolía, los ruiseñores se pondrían a eructar.

Ce s? mai cauÅ£i printre muritori când tu cânÅ£i din org? ÅŸi ei din fluier?

DiferenÅ£a dintre mine ÅŸi ceilalÅ£i oameni: eu am murit de nenum?rate ori, pe când ei n-au murit niciodat?.

In mijlocul unor peisaje prea frumoase, ne simÅ£im întreaga putreziciune ÅŸi ne este lehamite de cadavrul pe care-1 tîrîm dup? noi.

Si trebuie sa spun ca negativitatea mortii imi inspira admiratie. Dar este singurul lucru pe care-l pot admira fara sa-l iubesc.

Tristetea nu are niciun caracter estetic caracter ce nu lipseste decat uneori melancoliei.

For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse.

In my early youth - he would later write to his friend, the philosopher Constantin Noica- seduced me solely the libraries and the brothels.

Dintre toÈ›i semenii noÈ™tri, cel mai mult le sem?n?m duÈ™manilor noÈ™tri. Nu degeaba le purt?m atâta interes - È™i ei nou?.

I was alone in that cemetery overlooking the village when a pregnant woman came in. I left at once, in order not to look at this corpse-bearer at close range, nor to ruminate upon the contrast between an aggressive womb and the timeworn tombs—between a false promise and the end of all promises.

Qu'est-ce qu'une crucifixion unique, auprès de celle, quotidienne, qu'endure l'insomniaque?

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

I was alone in that cemetery overlooking the village when a pregnant woman came in. I left at once, in order not to look at this corpse-bearer at close range, nor to ruminate upon the contrast between an aggressive womb and the time-worn tombs -- between a false promise and the end of promises.

You with your veins full of night — you have no more place among men than an epitaph in the middle of a circus.

In Europe, happiness stops at Vienna. Beyond, misery upon misery, since the beginning.

Paganism is the deepening of appearances, while saintliness is the sickness of depths.

Les héros homériques vivaient et mouraient; les snobs de l'Occident discutaient du plaisir et de la douler.

What a notion, to place a clown like Diogenes in so lofty a niche!