Quotes About Contrast

If we lived for ever, who would look forward eagerly to tomorrow? If there were no darkness, should we so appreciate the sun? Warmth after cold, food after hunger, drink after thirst, sexual love after the absence of sexual love, the fatherly greeting after being away, the comfort and dryness of home after a ride in the rain, the warmth and peace and security of one's fireside after being among enemies. Unless there were contrast there might be satiety. He

Lei chinò il capo per ascoltarlo. Jim notò che in qualunque ombra sedessero, c'era sempre una luce che cercava la pelle pallida e liscia della fronte di lei, la curva delle sue guance. Luce, c'era sempre luce per i suoi occhi.

Chi sarebbe stata quel mattino: l'allegra domestica che vedeva alla luce del giorno o la sconosciuta dalla bocca di seta che aveva incontrato in quella notte d'estate?

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

ancient Greek saying, 'Love as if you shall hereafter hate, and hate as if you shall hereafter love.

We remember the sardonic war-time joke about the optimist and the pessimist. The optimist was the man who did not mind what happened so long as it did not happen to him. The pessimist was the man who lived with the optimist.

los grandes antagonismos se manifiestan en detalles pequeños.

No carece de encantos un mundo tan terrible, no carece de madrugadas que merecen un despertar.

My identifying features are rapture and despair.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Moje znaki szczególne to zachwyt i rozpacz.

A hanged sparrow! Who would ever think of hanging a sparrow? It's like flavoring borscht with two mushrooms instead of just one—it's too much!

Normalno?? jest linoskoczkiem nad otch?ani? nienormalno?ci.

Przypatrzcie siÄ™ ich zdaniom, które przygniatajÄ… terminologiÄ… dernier cri, gdy ich budowa, znakowanie, poprawno?? gramatyczna, bywa pod zdechÅ'ym Medorem. WspaniaÅ'y krawat, brudna koszula.

If I got a paper cut, that's a tragedy. If you fell down an open manhole and died, that's comedy.

To a human, the fall-colored leaves are gorgeous. To a red or yellow leaf, I can guarantee they find the green ones lovelier.

Her preference was to go by pistol shot, mine by placing my head in the dishwasher and pressing Full Cycle.

by the Beckmann triptych and Louise Nevelson's dark black sculpture.

Caesar and The Honeymooners—two very different great comedians, Sid and Jackie Gleason.

The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their music and we have ours. Theirs, the wasted songs of a superstitious nightmare. And without their music and ideological miscarriages to compare our songs of freedom to, we'd not have any opposite to compare music with --- and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power....

The tiger leapt, and the swallow dipped her wings in dark pools on the other side of the world.

La tristeza y la risa terminan entendiéndose como jarabe y tos. Ninguno de los dos es lo bastante fuerte para vencer al otro y al final se resignan a convivir.

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn't have the stomach to use the sharp edge). The dorado did the most extraordinary thing as it died: it began to flash all kinds of colours in rapid succession. Blue, green, red, gold, and violet flickered and shimmered neon-like on its surface as it struggled. I felt I was beating a rainbow to death.