Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Ist das Leben nicht hundert Mal zu kurz, sich in ihm - zu langweilen?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

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Topic

Boredom

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Source

Beyond Good and Evil

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1886 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

Germany Europe

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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 7, no. 227.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 7, no. 227.

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Sorrow comes in great waves—no one can know that better than you—but it rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us it leaves us on the spot, and we know that if it is strong we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain. It wears us, uses us, but we wear it and use it in return; and it is blind, whereas we after a manner see.

Henry James

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Topic
Learning from suffering Suffering

Author

Henry James
Source
Letters of Henry James
Medium
Letter
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1883 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

James, Henry. Letter to Grace Norton. 28 July 1883.

Current Citation

James, Henry. "July 28th [1883] To Grace Norton." The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1883-1884, edited by Michael Anesko and Greg W. Zacharias. Vol. 1, University of Nebraska Press, 2018.

Another quote originally in German

Ich bin ein Berliner.

John F. Kennedy

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Topic
Interconnectedness of all people Cold War Foreign policy International politics
Speaker
John F. Kennedy
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
German
Time
1963 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Kennedy, John F. "Ich bin ein Berliner." 26 June 1963, Rathaus Schoneberg, Berlin, Germany.