75 Quotes by Romain Rolland

في بعض الأحيان يدفع الإنسان بنفسه إلى الهلاك المحتوم ، ويبدو أنه يخاف من مساعدة الغير له ، فهو يهرب من كل نصيحة يمكن أن تنقذه، فيختبئ ويسرع في لهفة ليلقي بنفسه في الفراغ باختياره

أكبر كارثة بالنسبة للنفوس الضعيفة الرقيقة أن تكون قد عرفت السعادة الكاملة مرة في حياتها

Islands of memory begin to rise above the river of his life. At first they are little uncharted islands, rocks just peeping above the surface of the waters. Round about them and behind in the twilight of the dawn stretches the great untroubled sheet of water; then new islands, touched to gold by the sun.

When Christophe at last made up his mind to go to bed, chilled in body and soul, he heard the window below him shut. And, as he lay, he thought sadly that it is cruel for the poor to dwell on the past, for they have no right to have a past, like the rich: they have no home, no corner of the earth wherein to house their memories: their joys, their sorrows, all their days, are scattered in the wind.

ليس هناك أقسى على النفس من أن يتذكر الإنسان وهو في غمرة شقائه أياما سعيدة مرت به

To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.

Wrong or right, he would never again for anything in the world have recourse to a priest. He admitted that these men were his superiors in intelligence or by reason of their sacred calling; but in argument there is neither superiority, nor inferiority, nor title, nor age, nor name; nothing is of worth but truth, before which all men are equal.

Vešla mu do srdce dveřmi jeho očí; vešla tam celičká a dveře se za ní zavřely.