Amira Abdou > Amira's Quotes

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Colors blind the eye
Sounds deafen the ear.
Flavors numb the taste.
Thoughts weaken the mind.
Desires wither the heart.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“ان الانسان المقهور في المجتمع المتخلف يحس بالغربة في بلده ، يحس بأنه لا يملك شيئًا ، حتى المرافق العامة يحس انها ملك للسلطة ، وليست مسألة تسهيلات حياتية له هو . ذلك ان الهوة كبيرة جدا بينه وبينها وان ما يستحقه من خدمات وتقديرات تُقدم له ( اذا قدمت ) كمنّة او فضل ، لا كواجب مستحق له . عندما يخرب المرافق العامة فهو يعبر عن عدوانيته تجاه المتسلط .”
― مصطفى حجازي, التخلف الاجتماعي: مدخل إلى سيكولوجية الإنسان المقهور

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“at some point in a woman’s life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“Sea Prayer was inspired by the story of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian refugee who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach the Safety in Europe in 2015.

In the year after Alan's death, 4,176 others died or went missing attempting that same journey.”
― Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

“I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out