Farah > Farah's Quotes

“Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

“The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“بعض الأحيان, الآن مثلا, أحتاج إلي أحد يشرح لي المطلوب مني. كإنسان, ما المفترض بي أن أشعر؟؟ أي ردة فعل أطلق علاماتها علي وجهي؟ أبكي؟أضحك؟أمزق الورقة؟ ألعن؟ ليرشدني أحد و سأتكفل وحدي باصطناع بقية الملامح.”
― Siba Al-Harez

“What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.”
― Julianne Moore

“أنا من أهوى ومن أهوى أنا
نـــــحن روحان حللنا بدنا
فــــــإذا أبصرتني أبصرته
وإذا أبصــــــــرته كان أنـــا
روحه روحي وروحي روحه
من رأى روحين حلا بدنـــا”
― الحسين بن منصور الحلاج

“How can I live without thee, how forego
Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined,
To live again in these wild woods forlorn?
Should God create another Eve, and I
Another rib afford, yet loss of thee
Would never from my heart; no, no, I feel
The link of nature draw me: flesh of flesh,
Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state
Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled by him, but from under his arm to be protected by him, near to his heart to be loved by him.”
― Matthew Henry, An exposition of the Old and New Testament Volume 6

“Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make.”
― Adam S. McHugh, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture

“I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each.”
― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

“We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.”
― Camille Paglia

“Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.”
― Rollo May

“Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit