
„Ich erinnere mich, eines Morgens aufgewacht zu sein und alles mit der Farbe vergessener Liebe beschmiert vorgefunden zu haben.“
— Charles Bukowski US-amerikanischer Dichter und Schriftsteller 1920 - 1994
I remember the morning that I first asked the meaning of the word, "love."
Quelle: The Story of My Life (1903), Ch. 6
Kontext: I remember the morning that I first asked the meaning of the word, "love." This was before I knew many words. I had found a few early violets in the garden and brought them to my teacher. She tried to kiss me: but at that time I did not like to have any one kiss me except my mother. Miss Sullivan put her arm gently round me and spelled into my hand, "I love Helen."
"What is love?" I asked.
She drew me closer to her and said, "It is here," pointing to my heart, whose beats I was conscious of for the first time. Her words puzzled me very much because I did not then understand anything unless I touched it.
I smelt the violets in her hand and asked, half in words, half in signs, a question which meant, "Is love the sweetness of flowers?"
"No," said my teacher.
Again I thought. The warm sun was shining on us.
"Is this not love?" I asked, pointing in the direction from which the heat came. "Is this not love?"
It seemed to me that there could be nothing more beautiful than the sun, whose warmth makes all things grow. But Miss Sullivan shook her head, and I was greatly puzzled and disappointed. I thought it strange that my teacher could not show me love.
— Charles Bukowski US-amerikanischer Dichter und Schriftsteller 1920 - 1994
— Bill Clinton 42. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika 1946
1998 auf die Frage, ob er über seine Affäre mit Monica Lewinsky gelogen habe, Spiegel Online http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,531380,00.html, 28. Januar 2008
"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the [...] 'is' means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement. [...] Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true." - President Clinton's Aug. 17 [1998] Grand Jury Testimony. Anlage zum Starr Report. www.washingtonpost.com http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/bctest092198_4.htm
— Ernest Hemingway US-amerikanischen Schriftsteller 1899 - 1961
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, buch Sudelbücher
Sudelbücher Heft C (158)
Sudelbücher
— Manfred Weber deutscher Politiker (CSU), MdEP 1972
Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Worte für jeden Tag
— Fritz Perls Psychiater und Psychotherapeut 1893 - 1970
— Groucho Marx US-amerikanischer Komiker 1890 - 1977
— Salvador Dalí spanischer Maler, Grafiker, Schriftsteller, Bildhauer und Bühnenbildner 1904 - 1989
— Nicholas Sparks, buch Wie ein einziger Tag
The Notebook
— Freddie Mercury britischer Rocksänger 1946 - 1991
— Julien Green US-amerikanischer Autor 1900 - 1998
Der Unbekannte
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach österreichische Schriftstellerin 1830 - 1916
Aphorismen. Aus: Schriften. Bd. 1, Berlin: Paetel. 1893. S. 3
Aphorismen
Variante: Sag etwas, das sich von selbst versteht, zum ersten Mal und du bist unsterblich.
— Charles Bukowski US-amerikanischer Dichter und Schriftsteller 1920 - 1994
— Asfa-Wossen Asserate äthiopischer Adliger, Unternehmensberater und deutschsprachiger Autor 1948
Interview mit Hanno Gerwin http://www.gerwin.de/content.php?id=109, 21. Juli 2004, ERB Medien, Karlsruhe
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón spanischer Schriftsteller 1964
— Dorothy Parker US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin 1893 - 1967
— Freddie Mercury britischer Rocksänger 1946 - 1991