浙江省杭州市 蒋文 供稿
致青海玉树地震中的同胞:
我们明白,再华美的语言,在你们巨大的伤痛面前也显得微不足道。只希望,这些只言片语能在黑暗中为你们送去一点点生的希望和力量。
When you are sorrowful,look again in your heart,and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
—Kahlil Gibran
悲伤时,请再审视你的心灵。你就会看到自己为之哭泣的,其实是逝去的快乐。
——卡里·纪伯伦
While grief is fresh,every attempt to divert only irritates.You must wait till it be digested,and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
—Samuel Johnson
当悲伤刚刚来临,任何控制它的念头都只带来更多泪水;你要静候它的逝去,再用欢乐的力量将它驱散。
——塞缪尔·约翰逊
Give sorrow words;the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.
—William Shakespeare
悲伤若不说出嘴,就会向负荷过重的心窃窃私语而令其破碎。
——威廉·莎士比亚
Sorrow makes us all children again—destroys all differences of intellect.The wisest know nothing.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
悲伤把我们都变回小孩——它击碎了智慧带来的不同,即使最聪明的人也无法幸免。
——拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生
Grief is itself a medicine.
—William Cowper
悲伤本身就是解药。
——威廉·考柏
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
—Kenji Miyazawa
让我们拥抱悲伤,并将它化作前进的动力!
——宫泽贤治
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love,the things you are,the things you never want to lose.
—From the television showThe Wonder Years
记忆引路、带我们通往所爱之人、所为人之物,还有那些我们永远、也不想失去的东西。
——电视秀《美好岁月》
If you’re going through hell,keep going.
—Winston Churchill
如果注定要走过地狱、那就坚持走下去!
——温斯顿·丘吉尔
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
请给我征服悲哀的力量。
——拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
—Author Unknown
天堂里没有人间的伤痛。
——匿名
There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept,things we don’t want to know but have to learn,and people we can’t live without but have to let go.
—Author Unknown
总有一些事,我们不愿它发生,却必须接受;总有些东西,我们不想知道,却必须了解;总有些人,我们不能没有,却必须学着放手。
——匿名
In the night of death,hope sees a star,and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
—Robert Ingersoll
在死亡的夜晚,希望看到了一颗星,爱听到了翅膀沙沙作响。
——罗伯特·英格索尔
Every evening I turn my worries over to God.He’s going to be up all night anyway.
—Mary Crowley
每晚,我向神倾诉我的忧愁;(我知道)他会整夜陪着我。
——玛丽·克劳利
She was no longer wrestling with the grief,but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
—George Eliot
她不再和悲伤纠缠不休,而是和它并排坐下来,像是相识已久的伙伴,与之分享她的所思所想。
——乔治·艾略特
As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us.As long as I can I will laugh with he birds,I will sing with the flowers,I will pray to the stars,for both of us.
—Sascha,as posted on motivateus.com
我会尽全力地,代我们去看世界;尽全力地,代我们和鸟儿一起欢笑,和花儿一起歌唱,向着星星祈祷。
——萨斯查