Mahammad Saeed > Mahammad's Quotes

“THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? How do you sell an anti-ageing moisturiser? You make someone worry about ageing. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them worry about immigration. How do you get them to buy insurance? By making them worry about everything. How do you get them to have plastic surgery? By highlighting their physical flaws. How do you get them to watch a TV show? By making them worry about missing out. How do you get them to buy a new smartphone? By making them feel like they are being left behind. To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential. I want to read books that make me laugh and cry and fear and hope and punch the air in triumph. I want a book to hug me or grab me by the scruff of my neck. I don’t even mind if it punches me in the gut. Because we are here to feel.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“As Carl Jung put it, “In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” As Pink Floyd sang, “There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me.”
― David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

“تنتاب السَّحَرةَ حالةُ إغماءٍ بعد كل عملية سِحر ضد البشر يقومون بها، تعبِّر عن تفريغ شحنات السحر، فيصاب الساحر بإغماءة حتى يفيق منها فتكون شحناتٌ جديدة قد ارتقت مفاصلَه ليقوم بعمليةٍ أخرى بعدها مباشرة؛ لأنه لو لم يُغمَ عليه فسوف تمر به لحظاتٌ إنسانية تجعله يراجع عملياتِه السابقةَ فينتقدها ويشعر عندئذ بضيقٍ ونفور من ذاته، يتحول هذا النفور مع مرور الوقت إلى حالة اكتئابٍ نفسي شديد تنتابه ويمكن أن ينتحِر بسببها، لذلك يقوم السَّحَرةُ مِن آنٍ لآخرَ بعمليات سِحرٍ عشوائية مجانية تخلِّص البشرَ من آلامِهم وحينما يفرغ الساحر من القيام بها يشعر بعدَها برضا نفسي يؤدي إلى نسيانه لكل العمليات القذرة التي قام بها”
― عبد السلام إبراهيم, عرش الديناري