Quotes About Contrast

Ya sé que la noche no es parecida al día, que las cosas ocurren de otra manera, que las cosas de la noche no pueden explicarse a la luz del día porque entonces ya no existen; y la noche puede ser espantosa para una persona sola tan pronto como se dé cuenta de su soledad; pero, con Catherine, no había, por decirlo así, ninguna diferencia entre el día y la noche, sólo que las noches eran aún mejores que los días.

Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.

Unlike Tania, who was so slim, Rykoff looked as if he'd been given an order to get fat--an order he had been delighted to obey.

Lo repugnante puede resultar atractivo a veces. Aterrador, amenazante, pero también tentador. Como cuando nos acercamos a algo que huele mal, pero no podemos dejar de aspirar el hedor.

We go through life with one foot in a rose garden and the other in quick sand, he thought. - (Kurt)

The cold grips us like handcuffs and the heat is the liberating key.

Quel gallo era come una persona impaziente. Come quelle che vivono nella città, che sembrano sempre avere cosi tanto da fare da non riuscire a fare altro che preoccuparsi della propria fretta. Non era come qui nel villaggio, dove tutto avveniva con la lentezza che in fondo era quella della vita stessa. Perché la gente doveva correre quando le piante, di cui vivevano,crescevano comunque con tanta lentezza?

While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.

I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.

I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way...But lo! men have become the tools of their tools...We have built for this world a family mansion, and for the next a family tomb.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

The tavern will compare favorably with the church.

it is remarkable that the wild apple, which I praise as so spirited and racy when eaten in the fields or woods, being brought into the house, has frequently a harsh and crabbed taste. The Saunter-er's Apple not even the saunterer can eat in the house.

There was such a repose and quiet here at this hour, as if the very hill-sides were enjoying the scene, and as we passed slowly along, looking back over the country we had traversed, and listening to the evening song of the robin, we could not help contrasting the equanimity of nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume always a crises near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending." - A Walk to Wachusett

Und wirklich, je mehr er sich zu erniedrigen schien, desto mehr schien er erhöht zu werden.

We cannot conceive of a greater difference than between the life of one man and that of another.

I'd rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion

I one evening overtook one of my townsmen, who has accumulated what is called 'a handsome property'..on the Walden road, driving a pair of cattle to market, who inquired of me how I could bring my mind to give up so many of the comforts of life. I answered that I was very sure I liked it passably well; I was not joking. And so I went home to my bed, and left him to pick his way through the darkness and the mud to Brighton, which place he would reach some time in the morning.

Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth.

We like someone because. We love someone although.

Nessuno invero ha mai visto la bellezza in tutto il suo splendore quando non l'abbia vista nel dolore.

An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favour of doing it.