“I paid the price of solitude but at least I'm out of debt.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Planet Waves (1974), Dirge
“The kiss you take is paid by that you give:
The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt.”
Heroic Love, Act V, scene 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), "Kissing", p. 416-19.
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Bert McCracken (1982) American musician
Statement made to the audience before diving into the crowd at a concert, reported in Thomas Lake (February 21, 2005) "It may look like chaos, but it's music to their ears The Taste of Chaos concert draws a lively crowd and continues today", The Florida Times-Union, p. B-1.
“Debts that can't be paid, won't be paid.”
Michael Hudson (economist) (1939) American economist
p 25
Dr. Michael Hudson, KILLING THE HOST: HOW FINANCIAL PARASITES AND DEBT BONDAGE DESTROY THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, Islet 2015
Bernard MacLaverty (1942) Irish writer
"Nevertheless. Every little helps. The Brothers are sorely in need of it this weather."
Source: Novels, Lamb (1980), Ch.1 - p.12
“Keep some measure in the joy you take in luck, and the degree you
give way to sorrow.”
Archilochus (-680–-645 BC) Ancient Greek lyric poet
Fragment 67, as translated by R. Lattimore http://www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/arkhilokhos67.htm<br>Variant translations:<br>Soul, my soul, don't let them break you,<br>all these troubles. Never yield:<br>though their force is overwhelming,<br>up! attack them shield to shield...<br> "Archilochos: To His Soul" : A fragment http://web.archive.org/20030629194753/geocities.com/joncpoetics/translations/Archsoul.htm as translated from the Greek by Jon Corelis http://web.archive.org/20030805055937/www.geocities.com/joncpoetics/<br>Take the joy and bear the sorrow,<br>looking past your hopes and fears:<br>learn to recognize the measured<br>dance that orders all our years.<br>"Archilochos: To His Soul" : A fragment, as translated from the Greek by Jon Corelis <br class="br">Fragments <br class="br">Context: Heart, my heart, so battered with misfortune far beyond your strength,<br>up, and face the men who hate us. Bare your chest to the assault<br>of the enemy, and fight them off. Stand fast among the beamlike spears.<br>Give no ground; and if you beat them, do not brag in open show,<br>nor, if they beat you, run home and lie down on your bed and cry.<br>Keep some measure in the joy you take in luck, and the degree you<br>give way to sorrow. All our life is up-and-down like this.
Michael Hudson (economist) (1939) American economist
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John Prine (1946–2020) American country singer/songwriter
"It’s a Big Old Goofy World"
Song lyrics, The Missing Years (1991)
“The joy that you give to others
Is the joy that comes back to you.”
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
First published in The Educational Monthly of Canada, Volume 24 (1901), p. 29
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Context: Somehow not only for Christmas
But all the long year through,
The joy that you give to others
Is the joy that comes back to you.
And the more you spend in blessing
The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart's possessing
Returns to make you glad.