"Song of the Wanderer", st.8 - translated by Nick Joaquin.
“One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.”
Source: Terre des Hommes (1939), Ch. IX Barcelona and Madrid (1936)
Context: Human drama does not show itself on the surface of life. It is not played out in the visible world, but in the hearts of men. … One man in misery can disrupt the peace of a city. It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
What a gay little man in gray.
The Little Man all in Gray, translation by Amelia B. Edwards; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 133.
“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.”
“Man is one world, and hath
Another to attend him.”
Man, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Until the end of the world, when pain will pass away, this man groans and cries to God”
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, p.423
Context: Christ’s whole body groans in pain. Until the end of the world, when pain will pass away, this man groans and cries to God. And each one of us has part in the cry of that whole body. Thou didst cry out in thy day, and thy days have passed away; another took thy place and cried out in his day. Thou here, he there, and another there. The body of Christ ceases not to cry out all the day, one member replacing the other whose voice is hushed. Thus there is but one man who reaches unto the end of time, and those that cry are always His members.
Reb Saunders to Reuven Malter when talking about when Daniel was younger (p. 286)
The Chosen (1967)
