„And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.“

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— John Donne

Letzte Aktualisierung 7. Mai 2019.

John Donne4

englischer Schriftsteller 1572 - 1631

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— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Quelle: The Secret History

„By refusing to forgive, I give up all illusions. Why should I forgive, when no one is asking me to? I mean, my parents refuse to understand and to know what they did to me. So why should I go on trying to understand and forgive my parents and whatever happened in their childhood, with things like psychoanalysis and transactional analysis? What's the use? Whom does it help? It doesn't help my parents to see the truth. But it does prevent me from experiencing my feelings, the feelings that would give me access to the truth. But under the bell-jar of forgiveness, feelings cannot and may not blossom freely.“

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— Alice Miller Swiss psychologist 1923 - 2010

Breaking Down the Wall of Silence (Abbruch der Schweigemauer) (1990)

„I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.“

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— William Saroyan American writer 1908 - 1981

My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

„And throughout all eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.“

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— William Blake English Romantic poet and artist 1757 - 1827

My Specter, st. 14
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1804)

„I cannot forgive, but I understand.“

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— Christopher Paolini, buch Inheritance

Nasuada, on the actions of Murtagh
Inheritance (2011)

„Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender“

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— Elizabeth Gilbert, buch Eat, Pray, Love

Quelle: Eat, Pray, Love

„They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I don't understand why they can't just talk to me without all that question bit.“

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— Sarah Vaughan American jazz singer 1924 - 1990

Interview, The Montreal Mirror, 1976

„Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.“

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— Robert Frost American poet 1874 - 1963

Letter to Louis Untermeyer (8 July 1915)
1910s

„To understand all is to forgive all.“

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— Evelyn Waugh British writer 1903 - 1966

Quelle: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

„I am by the law of my nature a reasoner. A person who should suppose I meant by that word, an arguer, would not only not understand me, but would understand the contrary of my meaning.“

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— Samuel Taylor Coleridge English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772 - 1834

1 March 1834.
Table Talk (1821–1834)
Kontext: I am by the law of my nature a reasoner. A person who should suppose I meant by that word, an arguer, would not only not understand me, but would understand the contrary of my meaning. I can take no interest whatever in hearing or saying any thing merely as a fact — merely as having happened. It must refer to something within me before I can regard it with any curiosity or care. My mind is always energic — I don't mean energetic; I require in every thing what, for lack of another word, I may call propriety, — that is, a reason why the thing is at all, and why it is there or then rather than elsewhere or at another time.