„It is the saddest sight in the world. Sadder than destitution, sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honour of sharing or disputing each other’s food. He who eats alone is dead“
New York (p. 15)
1980s, America (1986)
Kontext: Yet there is a certain solitude like no other - that of the man preparing his meal in public on a wall, or on the hood of his car, or along a fence, alone. You see that all the time here. It is the saddest sight in the world. Sadder than destitution, sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honour of sharing or disputing each other’s food. He who eats alone is dead (but not he who drinks alone. Why is this?).
Jean Baudrillard5
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„There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.“
— Erma Bombeck When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and coul… 1927 - 1996
„my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.“
— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994
„There are few sights sadder than a ruined book. -Lemony Snicket“
— Daniel Handler, buch The Wide Window
The Wide Window (2000)
„There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
Variante: There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
„We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.“
— Jonathan Maberry, buch Dust & Decay
Quelle: Dust & Decay
„We will one day think it as horrible to eat animals as we now think it horrible to eat each other.“
— Rose Scott Australian suffragist 1847 - 1925
Miscellaneous Notes, Scott Papers; as quoted in A New Australia: Citizenship, Radicalism and the First Republic by Bruce Scates (Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 247 https://books.google.it/books?id=zkgeEmlRjEgC&pg=PA247.
— Willa Cather, buch The Song of the Lark
Part IV, ch. 1
The Song of the Lark (1915)
Kontext: The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do not intrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear.
— Hillary Clinton American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady 1947
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), 2016 Democratic National Convention (July 28, 2016)
„No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.“
— Thomas Carlyle Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher 1795 - 1881
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity
— Willem Dafoe American actor 1955
"Food Talks: Willem Dafoe, His Italian Family, Broccoli, Carciofi & Panzanella" http://www.foodiamo.com/italian-food-news/food-talks-willem-dafoe/, interview with Foodiamo (January 2018).
„Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.“
— Adlai Stevenson mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN 1900 - 1965
Speech in Denver, Colorado (5 September 1952)
„Alas for the sight where, after dire grief, one sees a sadder sight with grief more dire!“
— Gottfried von Straßburg, buch Tristan
Owe der ougenweide
da man nach leidem leide
mit leiderem leide
siht leider ougenweide!
Quelle: Tristan, Line 1751
— Confucius Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551 - -479 v.Chr
Quelle: The Doctrine of the Mean
— Eleanor Farjeon, buch Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)
Kontext: The world never knows, and cannot for the life of it imagine, what this man sees in that maid and that maid in this man. The world cannot think why they fell in love with each other. But they have their reason, their beautiful secret, that never gets told to more than one person; and what they see in each other is what they show to each other; and it is the truth. Only they kept it hidden in their hearts until the time came. And though you and I may never know why this lane is called Shelley's, to us both it will always be the greenest lane in Sussex, because it leads to the special secret I spoke of.
— John Hawkesworth (book editor)
From his edition of Swift's Works, as quoted in The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-eating https://archive.org/stream/ethicsofdietcate00will/ethicsofdietcate00will#page/n3/mode/2up by Howard Williams (London: F. Pitman, 1883), p. 168.
