The Cry to Heaven: “It is Destroying Me!”

By / / death, despair, grief, heaven, lament, outcry, providence, succession, The Analects, Xian Jin XI, Xian Jin XI Chapter 9, Yan Hui
When Yan Yuan died, Confucius cried out: “Alas! Heaven is destroying me! Heaven is destroying me!”

Alas! Heaven is destroying me! Heaven is destroying me!

噫！天丧予！天丧予！

Source: The Analects, Xian Jin XI, Chapter 9

Author: Confucius

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