Quotes About Contrast

The Captain was a peasant established in the Absolute.

Les douleurs sont incompatibles avec le soleil, qui les expose néanmoins à la lumière. Tout ce que nous avons caché dans nos nuits, nos possibilités de soupirs et nos soupirs effectifs, tout cela se répand dans son spectre, ses rayons se brisent, et il gît, aveuglé" par notre douleur, dans le tombeau de sa propre lumière.

Ibiza me réussit aussi mal que Valldemosa à Chopin.

La desproporción entre la infinitud del mundo y la finitud del hombre es un serio motivo de desesperación;

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us theirs?

Era una bellissima fanciulla, di quindici o sedici anni, alta e flessibile come un giunco, dalla pelle pallidissima, quasi alabastrina, con la tinta che ricordava suo padre il Corsaro Nero; aveva due occhi grandi, d'un nero intenso, e lunghe ciglia che lasciavano cadere sul viso la loro ombra. I suo capelli, neri come l'ala di un corvo, li teneva sciolti sulle spalle, legati solamente presso la nuca da una piccola fila di perle.

Sleep not, dream not; this bright dayWill not, cannot last for aye;Bliss like thine is bought by yearsDark with torment and with tears.

Love is like the wild-rose briar; Friendship is like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?

...I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow...

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.

For each ecstatic instantWe must an anguish payIn keen and quivering ratioTo the ecstasy.

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.

The work of nature in making generations is a patchwork—part resemblance, part contrast.

In the great histories there are two topics of interest—the man as a type of the age in which he lives,—the events and manners of the age he is describing; very often almost all the interest is the contrast of the two.

No two characters could, indeed, be found more opposite than the open, eager, buoyant poet, and the dark, threatening, unbelieving critic.

Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.

I remember the Sherlock Holmes stories where he and Watson would go to the countryside. Watson would see the beautiful cottages and Holmes would see a harbinger of crime. He went on to say that in London there are at least many police officers that would be nearby compared to the countryside where there are miles and miles from local law enforcement. If there is a police force it is very small which allows people to get away with a lot.

At night, the prison cells hold the darkness of a cave but for odd shapes here and there.

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane

Pare mai totdeauna coliba s?lbaticului civilizat

Alas! we cannot understand each other on any point. We are separated by an abyss. You are on the side of darkness, while I—I live in the light, the true Light!

Of that day in which everything was just too beautiful in the transparent winter air, what I remember most is the sight, when I turned back to look, of Hitoshi's black jacket melting into the darkness.

When there's a plus, there's always a minus. If there's a powerful light, the darkness that is its opposite will be just as strong.