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“Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more...What I dread is the isolation. ... There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“لا تسل عن سلامته روحه فوق راحته
بدلته همومه كفناً من وسادته
يرقب الساعة التي بعدها هول ساعته
شاغل فكر من يراه بإطراق هامته
بين جنبيه خافق يتلظّى بغايته
من رأى فحمة الدجى أضرمت من شرارته
حملته جهنم طرفاً من رسالته
هو بالباب واقف والردى منه خائف
فاهدأي يا عواصف خجلاً من جراءته
صامت لو تكلما لفظ النار والدما
قل لمن عاب صمته خلق الحزم أبكما
وأخو الحزم لم تزل يده تسبق الفما
لا تلوموه قد رأى منهج الحق مظلما
وبلاداً أحبها ركنها قد تهدما
وخصوماً ببغيهم ضجت الأرض والسما
مر حين فكاد يقتله اليأس إنما
هو بالباب واقف والردى منه خائف
فاهدئي يا عواصف خجلاً من جراءته”
― إبراهيم طوقان

“Claire: Dear Claire, "What" and "If" are two words as non-threatening as words can be. But put them together side-by-side and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life: What if? What if? What if? I don't know how your story ended but if what you felt then was true love, then it's never too late. If it was true then, why wouldn't it be true now? You need only the courage to follow your heart. I don't know what a love like Juliet's feels like - love to leave loved ones for, love to cross oceans for but I'd like to believe if I ever were to feel it, that I will have the courage to seize it. And, Claire, if you didn't, I hope one day that you will. All my love, Juliet”
― Lise Friedman, Letters to Juliet: Celebrating Shakespeare's Greatest Heroine, the Magical City of Verona, and the Power of Love

“My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There's a hole in the world like a big black pit who are filled with people who are filled with shit.”
― Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

“I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

“If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable."
"Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“The wider you spread your fingers apart while clapping is equal to the amount of retarded you look while clapping.”
― Christy Leigh Stewart

“It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.”
― Jim Morrison

“This is the strangest life I have ever known.”
― Jim Morrison

“Well, I've been down so Goddamn long,
that it looks like up to me.”
― Jim Morrison

“Could any Hell be more horrible than now, and real?”
― Jim Morrison

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend”
― Jim Morrison

“There are things known
and there are things unknown
and in between are the doors.”
― Jim Morrison, Letters from Joe

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can't get away from it. Not ever.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

“At least with zombies I know my enemy and I know what to do: Aim and shoot. It's not so easy with people.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“أريدك بمقدار ما لا أستطيع أخذك، وأستطيع اخذك بمقدار ما ترفضين ذلك، وأنت ترفضين ذلك بمقدار ما تريدين الاحتفاظ بنا معاً، وأنا وأنت نريد أن نظل معاً بمقدار ما يضعنا ذلك في اختصام دموي مع العالم!!!”
― غسان كنفاني, رسائل غسان كنفاني إلى غادة السمان

“إن الأشياء الصغيرة, حينما تحدث في وقتها, يكون لها معنى اكبر منها, اقصد أن هنالك بداية صغيرة لكل حادث كبير..”
― غسان كنفاني, الأثار الكاملة : القصص القصيرة - المجلد الثاني

“كم هو ضروري أن يموت بعض الناس .. من اجل أن يعيش البعض الآخر ..”
― غسان كنفاني, الأثار الكاملة : القصص القصيرة - المجلد الثاني

“أنتِ في جلدي، وأحسكِ مثلما أحس فلسطين: ضياعها كارثة بلا أي بديل”
― غسان كنفاني, رسائل غسان كنفاني إلى غادة السمان

“قد لا أريد أن أتذكر كي لا أجرح الحاضر، ولكنني لا أستطيع أن أنسى كي لا أخون ذاتي والحقيقة معًا”
― غسان كنفاني, رسائل غسان كنفاني إلى غادة السمان

“Maybe I should find another doctor; one who realizes the importance of scars.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus