
"A Place to Rest"
Poetry, Miscellaneous poems
Source: Kiss
"A Place to Rest"
Poetry, Miscellaneous poems
“The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.”
“Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.”
Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam.
His famous response to his judges upon his conviction as a heretic, prior to his transfer to the civil authorities for execution. (16 February 1600); as quoted by Gaspar Schopp of Breslau in a letter to Conrad Rittershausen; as translated in Giordano Bruno : His Life and Thought (1950) by Dorothea Waley Singer http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/bruno00.htm
Variant translations:
Perhaps your fear in passing judgment on me is greater than mine in receiving it.
It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
You pronounce sentence upon me with greater fear than I receive it.
“Fear of evil is greater than the evil itself.”
Sono maggiori li spaventi ch'e mali.
Act III, scene xi
The Mandrake (1524)
Algot Frövik (Allan Edwall) in Winter Light (1962).
Films
Context: When Jesus was nailed to the cross — and hung there in torment - he cried out — "God, my God! Why hast thou forsaken me?" He cried out as loud as he could. He thought that his heavenly father had abandoned him. He believed everything he'd ever preached was a lie. The moments before he died, Christ was seized by doubt. Surely that must have been his greatest hardship? God's silence.
Source: Star Maker (1937), Chapter XIII: The Beginning and the End; 3. The Supreme Moment and After (p. 161)
“Me and Jesus are cool. I'm cool with all the gods. Gods recognize gods.”
"UFC 197 press conference" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Mk9-4FLgE (January 2016), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC
2010s, 2016