I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

我爱我的过去。我喜欢我的礼物。我不为我所拥有的感到羞耻，我也不悲伤，因为我不再拥有它。

I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.

我穿着灰色的衣服，灰色的衣服就像风吹过的薄暮的血丝，军炮金属，战舰，工业涂料。

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

如果一个人郁郁寡欢，就由他自己去好了。没有人有权利在社会上大声疾呼，更糟糕的是，他看起来像是在压抑悲伤。

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

如果没有冬天，春天就不会如此怡人;如果我们有时不经历逆境，繁荣就不会如此受欢迎。

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

如果你想让我哭，你首先必须自己感到悲伤。

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

宁可死，不愿受辱而保全生命。生命的丧失，使人暂时忧愁;羞耻，使人一生一世愁苦。

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb.

轻微的悲伤是悲哀的，但重大的悲伤是无声的。

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

人类所处的环境使人类遭受了无数的痛苦和悲伤，然而，仿佛大自然在生活中播种的罪恶还不够多，我们还在不断地增加痛苦，通过彼此间的残忍对待使共同的灾难更加恶化。

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

我的生命在结束之前已经关闭了两次; 这还有待观察 如果永生公布 第三件事， 如此巨大，如此难以想象， 就像这两次一样。 离别是我们对天堂的全部认知， 我们只需要地狱。

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

我的写作不是来自快乐的时刻，而是来自挣扎和悲伤。

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

从来没有人告诉我，悲伤的感觉像恐惧。

Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

当然，我也听到过一些评论家对我的所作所为深恶痛绝，虽然有时我为让各种令人讨厌的人或群体感到愤怒而感到相当自豪，但有时我也不明白自己为什么要忍受这种悲伤。

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

一个人对这个世界的深刻反应常常是悲伤的。

One joy shatters a hundred griefs.

一个欢乐能驱散一百个悲伤。

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

人们常藉由叙述来平复悲伤。