A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
悲伤
Grief
Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.
显然,失去父母是非常困难的。我每天都想念我的爸爸,但我知道他会为看到我继续游泳并在奥运会上再试一次而感到自豪。
It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
歌唱失去这样一个人并不有趣,但与此同时,写作也很容易,因为那些记忆是如此真实、生动,是我的一部分。
I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience... But visionary experience is not always blissful. It’s sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.
到目前为止,我只谈到了那幸福的梦幻般的经历……但是幻想的经历并不总是幸福的。有时可怕。有天堂也有地狱。
Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!
父亲节很棒,但是所有的家庭聚会都提到了我母亲的去世。也许是我,因为我是个窝囊废。我们本来要在一起的,但是有人不见了!
There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
即使你的父母仍然爱你,但他们不能和你生活在一起的事实会让你觉得你有问题。
When you see millions of the mouth less dead Across your dreams in pale battalions go, Say not soft things as other men have said, That you’ll remember. For you need not so.
当你看到数以百万计的嘴少死在你的梦里,在苍白的营去,不要说软的话,因为其他人说过,你会记住的。你们不必这样。
I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.
我认为小说必须是关于你在特定的时间点所处的位置。我认为它真的需要代表你正在经历的一些特定的痛苦。这不仅仅是个故事。
I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands’ weaving.
我有一只鸽子,那只可爱的鸽子死了;我想它是悲伤而死的:啊,它为什么而悲伤呢?它的脚是用我亲手编织的丝线绑着的。
When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
当我想到一个快乐、幸福、自由的年轻女孩——再看看一个年轻妻子通常注定要处于的那种病态、痛苦的状态——你无法否认这是婚姻的惩罚。
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
太多诗人的地狱不是一座山顶上洒满阳光,缪斯女神和优雅女神造访过的小山,而是一座破败的老房子,充满阴郁,鬼魂出没。
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.
没有什么比让人们知道我们最可怕的地方更能治愈我们的伤痛了:当人们听到你哭泣和哀号,用爱看着你,就好像他们抱着你的孩子。
The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.
那些构成我生命最初六年的小事情突然间就被撕掉了,我身边没有一个爱我的人。没有一个人。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Humility rests upon the shores of your sorrows and blossoms upon the mountain of your faith.
谦卑落在你忧患的岸边,盛开在你信心的山上。
Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
自从幸福听到你的名字,它就一直在街上跑着寻找你。
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
最大的幸福是知道不快乐的来源。
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
悲伤在你身上刻得越深,你就能包含越多的快乐。那盛着你酒的杯,不正是在陶匠的窑里烧过的杯吗?
Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.
年轻时的疏离、失望和心痛都是我们第一次真正长大的一部分。
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
只有在离别的痛苦中,我们才能看到爱的深处。