Losing one glove
is certainly painful,
but nothing
compared to the pain,
of losing one,
throwing away the other,
and finding
the first one again.


Consolation Grook, his first grook, published in Politiken (April 1940) as translated in Grooks (1966). Variant: "Losing one glove is sorrow enough / But nothing compared with the pain / Of losing one glove / Discarding the other / Then finding the first one again."

Piet Hein Quotes

Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.

Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.

Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.

Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.