Origine: Da Some Musicians of Former Days, Ayer Publishing, 1977, p. 358. ISBN 978-0-8369-0831-2
Romain Rolland frasi celebri
Origine: Da Diario degli anni di guerra; citato in Isabella Adinolfi, Bruna Bianchi, «Fa' quel che devi, accada quel che può»: Arte, pensiero, influenza di Lev Tolstoj, Orthotes Editrice, Napoli, 2011, p. 189 http://books.google.it/books?id=mXLfCie60CEC&pg=PA189. ISBN 978-88-905619-9-3
Origine: Citato in Gino Ditali, Introduzione, in Lev Tolstoj, Contro la caccia e il mangiar carne, Isonomia editrice, Este, 1994, p. 8. ISBN 8885944116
Origine: Da Mahatma Gandhi; citato in Erik Erikson, La verità di Gandhi: Sulle origini della nonviolenza militante, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1972, p. 19.
Romain Rolland: Frasi in inglese
“It is not peace that I seek, but life.”
Ce n'est pas la paix que je cherche, c'est la vie.
Jean-Christophe (1904 - 1912), Journey's End: The Burning Bush (1911)
On himself, as quoted in World Authors 1900-1950 (1996)
“It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.”
Part I
Jean-Christophe (1904 - 1912), Jean-Christophe à Paris: The Market-Place (1908)
“Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.”
As quoted in The Great Quotations (1960) by George Seldes, p. 864
Life of Ramakrishna (1929)
As quoted in A Book of French Quotations (1963) by Norbert Guterman, p. 365
“I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.”
Inter arma Caritas, Journal de Genève (30 October 1914)
Jean-Christophe (1904 - 1912), Journey's End: The Burning Bush (1911)
Jean-Christophe to himself. Part 3: Ada
Jean-Christophe (1904 - 1912), Youth (1904)
“I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.”
As quoted in The Anchor Book of French quotations, with English Translations (1963) by Norbert Guterman
Life of Ramakrishna (1929)