All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

  • -- Anatole France 阿纳托尔·法朗士

所有的变化,即使是最渴望的变化,都有其忧郁之处;因为我们留下的是我们自身的一部分;我们必须先死一种生命,才能进入另一种生命。

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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

我们生活中太多的时间都花在考虑自己的缺点上,以至于没有时间去改善我们想象中的优点。事实上,我们只是在完善我们的罪恶,人死后比出生时更坏。

I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It's like shooting an old man.

我不知道我射过多少狮子和豹子。我已经射杀了两头大象,这就够了——再也不会了。猎象是一件令人伤感和感动的事。这就像射杀一个老人。

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

一个舒适的晚年是一个度过美好青春的奖赏。它不会给我们带来衰败的凄凉前景,而会给我们带来在更美好的世界里永葆青春的希望。

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

因为,什么都不期待的人不会失望,但期待太多的人——如果他日复一日地生活和使用手中的东西——将会被压垮。

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

没有什么比竭力使一件事显得自然更妨碍它成为自然的了。

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

我几乎想不出一种没有忧郁的美。

A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.

很多时候歌词里都有很多忧郁。

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

祷告使我们与神的旨意一致。