Quotes About Comparison

He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can never compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.

We can never know what we want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. [...] And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, 'sketch' is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.

El hombre nunca sabe qué debe querer, porque vive sólo una vida y no tiene modo de compararla con sus vidas precedentes ni de enmendarla con sus vidas posteriores.

El hombre nunca puede saber qué debe querer, porque vive sólo una vida y no tiene modo de compararla con sus vidas precedentes ni de enmendarla en sus vidas posteriores.

given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog...It is a completely selfless love.

We can never know what to want, because living only one life, we can neither compare it with our precious lives nor perfect it in our lives to come

The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.

We can never know what we want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come...And so....there is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison.

Não existe meio de verificar qual é a boa decisão, pois não existe termo de comparação. Tudo é vivido pela primeira vez e sem preparação. Como se um ator entrasse em cena sem nunca ter ensaiado. Mas o que pode valer a vida, se o primeiro ensaio da vida já é a própria vida?

He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. Was it better to be with Tereza or to remain alone? There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison.

Las mujeres siempre encuentran muchos más defectos en su propio hombre que en los demás.

We can never know what we want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. Was it better to be with Tereza or to remain alone? There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

?ovek nikada ne može znati šta treba da želi, jer živi samo jedan život i nikako ga ne može uporediti sa svojim prethodnim životima, niti ga u slede?im životima popraviti.

decir que queremos a A más que a B no es una comparación entre dos grados de amor, sino que significa que B no es amado.

Ne?manoma patikrinti, kuris sprendimas geresnis, nes n?ra su kuo lyginti. Žmogus visk? išgyvena pirm? kart? ir be jokio pasiruošimo. Tarsi aktorius vaidint? scenoje be repeticij?. <...> m?s? gyvenimas, n?ra ruoša, tai apmatai be paveikslo.

Mistaking the physical appearance of the beloved for someone else's. How often that's happened to him! Always with the same astonishment: does that mean that the difference between her and other women is so minute? How is it possible that he cannot distinguish the form of the being he loves most, the being he considers to be beyond compare?

ELNÖK Mint Goethe. ? egy hajdani és régvolt, távoli évszázad híres angol festÅ'je. Elrendeltem, hogy tanítsák az ifjúságnak az iskoláinkban. De meg kell mondanom, anyuka, hogy ez a nagy, angol tengeri hajós lényegében, igazából nem különbözik azoktól az emberektÅ'l, akikkel nap mint nap találkozunk az utcán.

If you like Harlan Coben, you'll love Linwood Barclay.

Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my life that compares with love.

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?