Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1 Quotes

“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“Everything is music for the born musician.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe: Dawn, Morning, Youth, Revolt

“stones are hard everywhere.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“the public will only stand genius in infintesimal doses,sprinkled with mannerisms and fashionable literature...A fashionable genius!Doesn't that make you laugh?..what a waste of power!”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of those pale eyes which had looked at him so timidly one evening when he had accosted the girl on the bank of the river, and had sat down beside her in the reeds - without knowing why - and had given her his hand.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“هیچ چیز به اندازه عشقی که منظور معینی نداشته باشد فرساینده نیست.
نیروی شخص را می خورد و از میان می برد. سودای شناخته شده روح آدمی را سخت به خود مشغول می دارد؛ شخص از آن یه ستوه می آید؛ ولی دست کم می داند به خاطر چه. هر چیز تحمل پذیر است مگر احساس خلا...”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“Սարսափելի բան են կյանքում այն մարդիկ, որոնք ոչինչ են: Որպես օդի մեջ նետած մի ծանրություն՝ նրանք ձգտում են ընկնելու, անպայման պետք է ընկնեն, և ընկնելով, իրենց հետ քարշ են տալիս այն ամենը, ինչ բախտը կապել է նրանց հետ:”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“A limited number of types,good and bad serve for all ages.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“Երբ ընտրությունն արված է, էլ կարիք չկա այդ մասին խոսելու, մնում է լոկ ազնվությամբ կատարել պարտականությունը:”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe: Dawn, Morning, Youth, Revolt

“Islands of memory begin to rise above the river of his life. At first they are little uncharted islands, rocks just peeping above the surface of the waters. Round about them and behind in the twilight of the dawn stretches the great untroubled sheet of water; then new islands, touched to gold by the sun.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“İnsan hayatında öyle bir yaşa gelir ki, insan o yaşta haksız olmaya, kendisine öğretilmiş bütün hayranlıkları ve saygıları içinden söküp atmaya -yalan ya da gerçek- her şeyi, kendince doğrulanmamış her şeyi inkar etmeye cesaret etmelidir. Bütün eğitimiyle, bütün çevresinde görüp işittikleriyle çocuk, hayatın temel hakikatleriyle birlikte o kadar çok yalan ve budalalık yutar ki, sağlıklı bir insan olmak istiyorsa, ilk ödevi bunları kusmaktır.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“But did he then love God, or was it only the music, as an impudent priest said to him one day in jest, without thinking of the unhappiness which his quip might cause in him? Anybody else would not have paid any attention to it, and would not have changed his mode of living--(so many people put up with not knowing what they think!) But Christophe was cursed with an awkward need for sincerity, which filled him with scruples at every turn. And when scruples came to him they possessed him forever.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“Wrong or right, he would never again for anything in the world have recourse to a priest. He admitted that these men were his superiors in intelligence or by reason of their sacred calling; but in argument there is neither superiority, nor inferiority, nor title, nor age, nor name; nothing is of worth but truth, before which all men are equal.”
― Romain Rolland, JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VOLUMES 1 to 4 PART I: JEAN-CHRISTOPHE