Shaimaa شيماء > Shaimaa's Quotes

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
― Albert Camus

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“كان يلزمنا قلوب أكبر كي تتسع لكل هذا الأسى”
― إبراهيم نصرالله, أعراس آمنة

“في الغربة لا تَستطيع أن تدّعي امتلاكك لشيء ما، في الغربة أنتِ لا تملكين سوى حُلمك
- زيتون الشوارع”
― ابراهيم نصرالله

“الحرية لا تأتي وحدها الحرية ذهاب دائم ، وأغلب الأحيان إلى المجهول ، وهي حالة بحث لا تعرف التوقف أو الهدوء ، وكل وصول ليس أكثر من محطة يعقبها سفر آخر إلى نهاية الحياة !”
― عبد الرحمن منيف, الآن هنا.. أو شرق المتوسط مرة أخرى

“انا لا يعنيني ما تؤمن به .. يعنيني ما تفعله بهذا الايمان”
― ابراهيم نصرالله

“عمرها ما كانت مشكلتنا مع الله، مشكلتنا مع الذين يعتبرون نفسهم بعد الله.”
― محمد الماغوط (مسرحية شقائق النعمان)

“!لك شيء في هذا العالم.. فقم”
― غسان كنفاني

“أتعرفين ما هو الوطن يا صفية ؟ الوطن هو ألا يحدث ذلك كله.”
― غسان كنفاني, عائد إلى حيفا

“في الغربة لا تستطيعين أن تدعين امتلاكك لشيء ما, في الغربة أنتِ لا تملكين سوى حلمك”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, زيتون الشّوارع

“تُنسى كأنك لم تكُن”
― محمود درويش

“I cannot understand what pleasures and joys they are that drive people to the overcrowded railways and hotels, into the packed cafés with the suffocating and oppressive music, to the Bars and variety entertainments, to World Exhibitions, to the Corsos. I cannot understand nor share these joys, though they are within my reach, for which thousands of others strive. On the other hand, what happens to me in my rare hours of joy, what for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd. And in fact, if the world is right, if this music of the cafés, these mass enjoyments and these Americanised men who are pleased with so little are right, then I am wrong, I am crazy. I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray who finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“Friendship is less simple. It is long and hard to obtain but when one has it there's no getting rid of it; one simply has to cope with it. Don't think for a minute that your friends will telephone you every evening, as they ought to, in order to find out if this doesn't happen to be the evening when you are deciding to commit suicide, or simply whether you don't need company, whether you are not in the mood to go out. No, don't worry, they'll ring up the evening you are not alone, when life is beautiful. As for suicide, they would be more likely to push you to it, by virtue of what you owe to yourself, according to them. May heaven protect us, cher Monsieur, from being set upon a pedestal by our friends!”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

“كنتُ طوال تلك السنوات أبحث عن ظلام يُشبهني، ظلامٌ فادحٌ أستقي ملامحه من ملامحي، يعبئ لونه الأسود من جبهتي وألامس، ببشرتي، صفحاته المكدّسْ عليها اللون الأصلي للفناء، تتلاشى عند حضرته قِيّم الحياة، أعتنقُ، كلما جاء، مذهبَه مرتلًا أسفاره، وأمضي حين رحيله إلى عزلتي، ظلامٌ أركض فيه مثل كَنجرو أعمى يفتقر إلى بوصلة تُعوِّض فقدانه لبصرِه، فيتقافز في كُتّلِ الظلام اللانهائية، طاويًا الأرض بساقيّه الخلفيتيَّن، ويُجدِّف بالأماميتيَّن بسرعةٍ شديدةٍ في موج الظلام المُكدّس في عينيّه ولا يصل إلى نقطة النهاية أبدًا”
― عبد السلام إبراهيم, عزلة الكنجرو