Quotes About Contrast

Beauty comes from tension: between order and disorder, simplicity and complexity.

Aber jeder Schatten ist im letzen doch auch Kind des Lichts, und nur wer Helles und Dunkles, Krieg und Frieden, Aufstieg und Niedergang erfahren, nur der hat wahrhaft gelebt.

the natural animosity between those who slept and those who were stirring in the sleeping city.

The woman who had been born in an imperial palace, and then, as Queen of France, had had hundreds of rooms in her dwelling house, was now imprisoned in a tiny basement cell, its walls streaming with damp, and its grated window half occluded.

Alles nach dem ist Ernüchterung, Abschattung nach diesem Rausch von Farben und Formen, nach der göttlichen Vielfalt dieser Stadt.

Maar elke schaduw is in zijn diepste wezen toch ook een kind van het licht, en alleen wie licht en donker, oorlog en vrede, hoogtepunten en dieptepunten heeft meegemaakt, alleen die heeft waarachtig geleefd.

Es el asombro eterno que en cada rincón de la Tierra, siente todo hijo de la naturaleza ante los hijos de la cultura, para quienes un puñado de metal amarillo tiene más valía que todos los logros técnicos y espirituales.

But, after all, shadows themselves are born of light. And only he who has experienced dawn and dusk, war and peace, ascent and decline, only he has truly lived.

Its radiant glow seemed much lighter and happier than this northern sky of eternal grey cloud.

Pero toda sombra es, al fin y al cabo, hija de la luz y solo quien ha conocido la claridad y las tinieblas, la guerra y la paz, el ascenso y la caída, solo este ha vivido de verdad.

In the last resort, every shadow is also the child of light, and only those who have known the light and the dark, have seen war and peace, rise and fall, have truly lived their lives.

Bu karanl?k ne kadar korkunç, ne kadar sars?c?, ama yine de ne kadar esrarl? ve güzeldi! Bütün bu iç içegeçen uÄŸultular? ve çaÄŸr?lar?, bütün bu h???rt?lar? ve ç?t?rt?lar? hayvanlar m?, insanlar m? ç?kart?yordu, yoksa rüzgar?n hayal gibi elinin marifeti miydi?

After all, shadows themselves are born of light.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!

M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however . These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. There are times in life that are very but however .

The winter was blasting its cold winds of dire portent into the tender face of springtime.

Gratitude and sadness were strange but familiar companions.

The farmhouse itself no longer looked like a beast about to spring. (Not that it ever had, to her, for she was not in the habit of thinking that things looked exactly like other things which were as different from them in appearance as it was possible to be.)

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

The short story can be hot and sweet or hot and fierce. You get it in one sitting or you don't get it. It's like a shore break. It happens quickly, and is right there in front of you, menacing you. First you're looking at the shore break, and then if you don't back up, it's on you. The novel is the long, low wave that you ride south from the Arctic Circle. It's powerful, but its power accumulates over a very long time as it rolls towards the reef.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Truth out of season was sourer than strawberries at Christmas time.

The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.