“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
Richard Adams book Watership Down
Source: Watership Down
Source: Peony in Love
“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
Richard Adams book Watership Down
Source: Watership Down
Robert Silverberg (1935) American speculative fiction writer and editor
Short fiction, Schwartz Between the Galaxies (1974)
Milkha Singh (1935) Indian track and field athlete
The Race of My Life: An Autobiography Milkha Singh (2013)
Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound
Variant: You will lose what you value most...
It hadn't been me that Rhonda was talking about. It hadn't even been Dimitri's life.
What you value most.
It had been his soul.
Source: Spirit Bound
“Falling tears in my heart,
Falling rain on the town.
Why this long ache,
A knife in my heart.”
Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) French poet
Il pleure dans mon cœur
Comme il pleut sur la ville.
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui pénètre mon cœur?
"Il pleur dans mon cœur" line 1, from Romances sans paroles (1874); Sorrell p. 69
Source: One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition
“My tears are buried in my heart,
Like cave-locked fountains sleeping.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Song - I pray thee let me weep to-night
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
Asger Jorn (1914–1973) Danish artist
In a conversation with Pierre Loeb, circa 1946; as quoted on the website of the Jorn Museum 'Articles' by Jorn http://www.museumjorn.dk/en/article_presentation.asp?AjrDcmntId=255, <br class="br">1940 - 1948, Various sources
“Objects bring back their memories. You tear my heart!”
A commentary on an episode in Chapter 8 of the Dream of the Red Chamber, trans. David Hawkes in The Story of the Stone, Vol. I (Penguin, 1973), p. 34, quoted by Gideon Shelach-Lavi in "Memory, Amnesia and the Formation of Identity Symbols in China", published in Memory and Agency in Ancient China (Cambridge University Press, 2018)