
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.”
Return to Tipasa (1954)
Variant translation: In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
As translated in Lyrical and Critical Essays (1968), p. 169; also in The Unquiet Vision : Mirrors of Man in Existentialism (1969) by Nathan A. Scott, p. 116
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.”
Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)
Song lyrics, Music of My Mind (1972)
“I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew.”
Treason (1988)
“I do not believe in violence; it is the last resort of fools.”
Dawn (1884), CHAPTER XXI
"Music When the Lights Go Out" (with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry
“Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.”
Richard, Act I, scene i.
Variant: Now is the winter of our discontent.
Source: Richard III (1592–3)
“In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer…”
Source: The Kingdom of God Is Within You