Andy Rooney (1919–2011) writer, humorist, television personality
[Andy Rooney, w:Andy Rooney, 9, Twofers, Years of Minutes, 2003, PublicAffairs, 978-1586482114]
“What win I if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?”
Source: The Rape of Lucrece
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A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a …" by William Shakespeare?
William Shakespeare699
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“Joy is deeper than sorrow, for all joy seeks eternity.”
Julie Taymor (1952) American film and theatre director
Academy of Achievement interview (2006)
Context: In our culture, we think that happy and color is trivial, that black and darkness is deeper. But Nietzsche said — which is a line that I firmly believe — "Joy is deeper than sorrow, for all joy seeks eternity." And if you see Grendel, you'll see, as he's on the edge of the abyss, ready to leap to his death, he sings, "Is it joy I feel? Is it joy I feel?" And it's so, so moving. You can have a lot of different explanations for the ending of that opera, but there is something so palpable that you will feel when he sings those lines.