— Miguel de Cervantes Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547 - 1616
Quelle: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 6.
„History is not made only by kings and parliaments, presidents, wars, and generals. It is the story of people, of their love, honor, faith, hope and suffering; of birth and death, of hunger, thirst and cold, of loneliness and sorrow.“
Preface
Sackett's Land (1974)
Kontext: We are all of us, it has been said, the children of immigrants and foreigners — even the American Indian, although he arrived here a little earlier. What a man is and what he becomes is in part due to his heritage, and the men and women who came west did not emerge suddenly from limbo. Behind them were ancestors, families, and former lives. Yet even as the domestic cattle of Europe evolved into the wild longhorns of Texas, so the American pioneer had the characteristics of a distinctive type.
Physically and psychologically, the pioneers' need for change had begun in the old countries with their decision to migrate. In most cases their decisions were personal, ordered by no one else. Even when migration was ordered or forced, the people who survived were characterized by physical strength, the capacity to endure, and not uncommonly, a rebellious nature.
History is not made only by kings and parliaments, presidents, wars, and generals. It is the story of people, of their love, honor, faith, hope and suffering; of birth and death, of hunger, thirst and cold, of loneliness and sorrow. In writing my stories I have found myself looking back again and again to origins, to find and clearly see the ancestors of the pioneers.
Übernommen aus Wikiquote. Letzte Aktualisierung 3. Juni 2021. Geschichte
Louis L'Amour1
amerikanischer Schriftsteller 1908 - 1988Ähnliche Zitate
„Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.“
— Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States of America 1743 - 1826
— Alice Borchardt, buch The Dragon Queen
The Dragon Queen
— Megan Marie Hart American opera singer 1983
From "Persönliche Notiz", in the recital program for the opening event of festival year "100 days, 1700 years – Jewish life in Darmstadt". https://www.darmstadt-tourismus.de/en/visit/events/events/artikel/detail/juedisches-leben-in-darmstadt-festjahr-100-tage-1700-jahre.html Liedgut – Famous Musicians of Jewish Origin (2021), p. 2 http://web.archive.org/web/20210902070031/https://staatstheater-darmstadt.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/produktion/programmbuch/994?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3D%22210831_PH_Liedgut_web.pdf%22&response-cache-control=public&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAUCI3T77LT4YWGJ7O%2F20210902%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20210902T070031Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=600&X-Amz-Signature=d36591acd16fc78b29808a50bfaf03d75dc5d97aaab1945548d8ad24040d4a9d.
Original: (de) Jüdische Geschichte ist voll von Leiden und schrecklichem Kummer. Aber sie ist auch voll von unermesslicher Freude. Wir ehren das Leiden durch Erinnern. Wir ehren die Freude durch Feiern.
— Lloyd Alexander American children's writer 1924 - 2007
"The Grammar of Story", in Celebrating Children's Books (1981), pp. 10–11
„Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.“
— R. Scott Bakker, buch The Warrior Prophet
Ajencis, The Third Analytic of Men
Quelle: The Warrior Prophet (2005)
— William Saroyan, buch The Human Comedy
The Human Comedy (1943)
Kontext: Everything is changed — for you. But it is still the same, too. The loneliness you feel has come to you because you are no longer a child. But the whole world has always been full of that loneliness. The loneliness does not come from the War. The War did not make it. It was the loneliness that made the War.
— Carolina de Robertis American writer 1975
On writing and history in “Interviews: Carolina de Robertis” https://bookpage.com/interviews/24365-carolina-de-robertis-fiction#.Xebr8_lKjcs in BookPage (2019 Sep 3)
„Suffering without faith would be like love without hope.“
— Adrienne von Speyr Swiss doctor and mystic 1902 - 1967
Quelle: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 45
— Alastair Reynolds British novelist and astronomer 1966
“You’ve just described nine-tenths of human history.”
Open and Shut (p. 265)
Short fiction, Belladonna Nights and Other Stories (2021)
— Randolph Sinks Foster American bishop 1820 - 1903
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 300.
— Robert Graves English poet and novelist 1895 - 1985
"To Juan at the Winter Solstice" from Poems 1938-1945 (1946).
Poems
„Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion.“
— Kóbó Abe, buch The Woman in the Dunes
Quelle: The Woman in the Dunes
„Lincoln was the only president in American history whose administration was bounded by war.“
— James M. McPherson American historian 1936
James M. McPherson. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (2008) p. xiii
2000s
„The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.“
— Friedrich Dürrenmatt Swiss author and dramatist 1921 - 1990
Portrait of a Planet (1971)
— John Conington British classical scholar 1825 - 1869
Quelle: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 197
— Stendhal, buch Rot und Schwarz
Il n’y a point de droit naturel: ce mot n'est qu’une antique niaiserie... Avant la loi il n’y a de naturel que la force du lion, ou le besoin de l’être qui a faim, qui a froid, le besoin en un mot.
Vol. II, ch. XLIV
Variant translation: There is no such thing as natural law, the expression is nothing more than a silly anachronism … There is no such thing as right, except when there is a law to forbid a certain thing under pain of punishment. Before law existed, the only natural thing was the strength of the lion, or the need of a creature who was cold or hungry, to put it in one word, need.
As translated by Horace B. Samuel (1916)
Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (1830)
