„I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it.“
As quoted in Sophie Scholl: The Real Story of the Woman who Defied Hitler (2009) by Frank McDonough
Kontext: I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it. Unprepared, given over to childish trivialities, it could be taken by surprise when the great hour comes and find that, for the sake of piffling pleasures, the one great joy has been missed. I am aware of this, but my heart is not. It seems unteachable; it continues its dreaming … always wavering between joy and depression.
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„Love I get so lost, sometimes.
Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.“
— Peter Gabriel English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian 1950
In Your Eyes
Song lyrics, So (1986)
Kontext: Love I get so lost, sometimes.
Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.
When I want to run away,
I drive off in my car.
But whichever way I go,
I come back to the place you are.
„I know love is eternal, so also are folly, lies and roses.“
— Alice Borchardt, buch The Silver Wolf
In this world our hopes for the best are so often disappointed
Love is eternal. That is its terror and its final beauty. Love never ends. The joy may go out of it, and in time even the pain may end. But it lingers like a living thing and follows you every moment of your life.
The Silver Wolf
— Samuel Johnson, buch A Dictionary of the English Language
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.
Preface http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/preface.html
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
— Natsuki Takaya Manga artist 1973
Quelle: Fruits Basket, Vol. 1
— Zhuangzi classic Chinese philosopher -369 - -286 v.Chr
Kontext: How do I know that enjoying life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death we are not like people who got lost in early childhood and do not know the way home? Lady Li was the child of a border guard in Ai. When first captured by the state of Jin, she wept so much her clothes were soaked. But after she entered the palace, shared the king's bed, and dined on the finest meats, she regretted her tears. How do I know that the dead do not regret their previous longing for life? One who dreams of drinking wine may in the morning weep; one who dreams weeping may in the morning go out to hunt. During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream. And yet fools think they are awake, presuming to know that they are rulers or herdsmen. How dense! You and Confucius are both dreaming, and I who say you are a dream am also a dream. Such is my tale. It will probably be called preposterous, but after ten thousand generations there may be a great sage who will be able to explain it, a trivial interval equivalent to the passage from morning to night.
„But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?“
— Robert Browning English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812 - 1889
Balaustion's Adventure.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
— Kathy Acker American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet 1947 - 1997
Quelle: Pussy, King of the Pirates
— Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970
1950s, The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (1955)
— Brunello Cucinelli Italian entrepreneur and philanthropist 1953
Quelle: A Day In the Life of Brunello Cucinelli https://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/designers/a17874/brunello-cucinelli-profile/ Harper's Bazaar, Lauren McCarthy, 15 September 2016
— Saima Harmaja Finnish poet and writer 1913 - 1937
A poem from the collection “Hunnutettu” (“Veiled”), translation by Rupert Moreton (1936)
Original: (fi) Nyt varjo vain
on edessäni elon matka.
Ja takanain
on tuskan tie, se jot’ en jatka.<p>Mun takanain
on kevät alla julman kirren.
Sen elää sain,
sain kynnykselle suvivirren.<p>Sen mukanaan
vei käsi kallis, kylmentyvä.
Nyt suven maan
nään sydämessä hauta syvä.
„So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lies.“
— Walter Raleigh English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer 1554 - 1618
Stebbing's Sir Walter Raleigh, chapter 30, gives these as Raleigh's words on being asked by the executioner which way he wanted to lay his head on the block.
Attributed
— Cary Grant British-American film and stage actor 1904 - 1986
Quelle: As quoted in "They Changed Their Careers and Became Famous; Cary a Failure?" https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87358421/the-boston-globe/ by Jack Harrison Pollack, Parade (November 16, 1969), p. 7; and The Filmgoer's Book of Quotes (1978) by Leslie Halliwell, p.229
— Clifford D. Simak, buch Time is the Simplest Thing
Quelle: Time is the Simplest Thing (1961), Chapter 9 (p. 69)
