„Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.“
— Dorothy Parker American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893 - 1967
Quelle: The Collected Dorothy Parker
„They cry sour grapes when the object of their desires is beyond their grasp.“
— Margarete von Navarra, buch Heptaméron
Ilz font semblant de n'aymer poinct les raisins quand ilz sont si haults, qu'ilz ne les peuvent cueillir.
Sixth Day, Novel LIII (trans. P. A. Chilton)
L'Heptaméron (1558)
Original
Ilz font semblant de n'aymer poinct les raisins quand ilz sont si haults, qu'ilz ne les peuvent cueillir.
L'Heptaméron (1558)
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„My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.“
— Daisy Ashford, buch The Young Visiters
Quelle: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 8
— Isaac Asimov, buch The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
Quelle: The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
— Charles Stross, buch Iron Sunrise
Quelle: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 14, “Sybarite Class” (p. 228)
— Roger Ebert American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter 1942 - 2013
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sour-grapes-1998 of Sour Grapes (17 April 1998)
Reviews, Zero star reviews
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, buch Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Quelle: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 176 (footnote)
„But when to-morrow comes, yesterday's morrow will have been already spent: and lo! a fresh morrow will be for ever making away with our years, each just beyond our grasp.“
Cum lux altera venit,<br/>iam cras hesternum consumpsimus; ecce aliud cras<br/>egerit hos annos et semper paulum erit ultra.
— Persius ancient latin poet 34 - 62
Cum lux altera venit,
iam cras hesternum consumpsimus; ecce aliud cras
egerit hos annos et semper paulum erit ultra.
Satire V, line 67.
The Satires
— Henry Kuttner American author 1915 - 1958
Quelle: The Time Axis (1949), Ch. 3 : The Vision Of Time
Kontext: I closed my eyes again, thinking of the Face. I had to force my mind to turn around in its tracks and look, for it didn't want to confront that infinite complexity again. The Face was painful to see. It was too intricate, too involved with emotions complex beyond our grasp. It was painful for the mind to think of it, straining to understand the inscrutable things that experience had etched upon those mountain-high features.
"Is it a portrait?" I asked suddenly. "Or a composite? What is the Face?"
"A city," De Kalb said. "A nation. The ultimate in human destiny — and a call for help. And much more that we'll never understand."
„Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.“
— Frederick Buechner Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian 1926
Quelle: The Magnificent Defeat (1966)
„When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.“
— Jeanette Winterson English writer 1959
Quelle: Written on the Body
— Samuel Butler novelist 1835 - 1902
Eating Grapes Downwards
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books
— Adam Przeworski Polish-American academic 1940
Adam Przeworski, Sustainable Democracy (1995), Conclusion
— Anthony de Mello Indian writer 1931 - 1987
Quelle: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 134
Kontext: A religious belief… is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the grasp of human thought. In short, a religious belief is only a finger pointing to the moon. Some religious people never get beyond the study of the finger. Others are engaged in sucking it. Others yet use the finger to gouge their eyes out. These are the bigots whom religion has made blind. Rare indeed is the religionist who is sufficiently detached from the finger to see what it is indicating — these are those who, having gone beyond belief, are taken for blasphemers.
