William Godwin - When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so...

William Godwin Zitate

When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.

William Godwin

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Wenn das von uns befürchtete Unglück bereits eingetreten ist oder wenn die Erwartung, die Hoffnung auszuschließen, die Hoffnung auszuschließen scheint, scheint es ein Prinzip in uns zu geben, nach dem wir mit misanthropischer Gelassenheit auf den Staat schauen, auf den wir reduziert sind, und auf das das Herz zieht sich mürrisch zusammen und passt sich dem an, was es am meisten verabscheut.

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