A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
悲伤
Grief
I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.
我想,当你在写一篇你知道会引起很多情绪的文章时,你知道你所面临的是什么——你可能会陷入深深的忧郁之中。
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
人们发现很难快乐的原因是他们总是看到过去比过去更好,现在比现在更糟,未来比将来更不确定。
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
我们对失去朋友的担心并不总是来自于他们的价值感,而是来自于我们自己对他们的需要,以及我们失去了一些对我们有好感的人。
He’s gone, incinerated for all time. I am the ashes left behind, soaked with too many tears, and burdened with an infinite future I cannot see. Our life together is finished.
他走了,永远化为灰烬。我是身后的灰烬,浸透了太多的泪水,背负着看不见的无限未来。我们在一起的生活结束了。
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.
我的眼泪没有渠道,也不知道什么规律来引导它们的溪流,却像波浪一样,奔流不息,奔腾不息,直到把我吞没,以此来描述它的痛苦。
But I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as possible - from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.
但我一直觉得有必要过一种完全独立的生活——至少是尽可能地独立——远离成为名人所带来的那种虚幻的生活方式。
Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.
有时我的心很疼,我用拳头敲打它。我试着跑。但你不能逃避。它在等你。即使你认为你已经逃脱了,它仍然存在。
O rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.
啊,罗斯,你病了!在狂风暴雨中,夜行的看不见的虫,找到了你深红色的快乐的床,他那黑暗的秘密的爱,把你的生命毁灭了。
In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.
在我们的文化中,我认为大多数人认为悲伤是悲伤,这当然是悲伤的一部分,很大一部分,但也有这种刺痛感,这些边缘会显现出来。
All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.
我想要的只是忘记。但是,即使在我以为自己看到了的时候,碎片还是不断地冒出来,就像浮在水面上的木头碎片一样,这只能说明下面发生了沉船事故。
When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.
当你在受苦的时候,你是在寻找一个人成为你的耶稣。你在寻找一个爱你的人,一个帮助你照顾你的人,一个向你伸出援手的人。
‘Be thine despair and sceptred care; To triumph, and to die, are mine.’ He spoke, and headlong from the mountain’s height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.
“做你的绝望和怀疑的忧虑吧;胜利和死亡,都是我的。他说着,从山的高处,汹涌的潮水中,他一头扎进了无尽的黑夜。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness.
在你的情绪中:用快乐战胜悲伤。
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
最大的幸福是知道不快乐的来源。
We must walk the path of sadness in order to appreciate truly the path of happiness.
我们必须走悲伤的道路,才能真正欣赏幸福的道路。
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.
一个名副其实的艺术家的良心就像一种不治之症,给他带来无尽的折磨,但偶尔也会让他充满无言的喜悦。
It is right it should be so, Man was made for joy and woe; And when this we rightly know, Through the world we safely go.
应该如此,人是为快乐和悲伤而生的;当我们正确地认识到这一点时,我们就能安全地穿过这个世界。