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“الناس قسمان: متكلمون وساكتون.
أنا قسم الإنسانية الساكت. ومابقي فمتكلمون. أما البكم والرضع فلغاية ختمت الحكمة الأزلية على أفواههم فلا يتكلمون. في حين أني ختمتُ على فمي بيدي. وقد أدركت حلاوة السكوت ولم يدرك المتكلمون مرارة الكلام.
لذلك سكت والناس يتكلمون.”
― ميخائيل نعيمة, مذكرات الأرقش

“الكلام مزيج من الصدق والكذب. أما السكوت فصدق لا غش فيه.
لذلك سكت والناس يتكلمون.”
― ميخائيل نعيمة, مذكرات الأرقش

“وكيف لمن يبصر ما لايبصره الناس ويسمع مالا يسمعونه إلا أن يكون مجنوناً في عرف الناس؟”
― ميخائيل نعيمة, مذكرات الأرقش

“ولو أن البشر عرفوا الله لما قسموه إلى عبراني ومسيحي ومسلم وبوذي ووثني. ولما أهرق إنسان دم إنسان، ولا أبغض إنسان إنساناً من أجل الله”
― ميخائيل نعيمة

“فالوطن ليس أكثر من عادة. والبشر عبيد عاداتهم. ولأنهم عبيد عاداتهم تراهم قسموا الأرض إلى مناطق صغيرة يدعونها أوطانهم.”
― ميخائيل نعيمة, مذكرات الأرقش

“ما من مصيبة إلا الجهل. فالمصيبة تثقل على قدر جهلنا مصدرها ومعناها، وتخف على قدر فهمنا معناها ومصدرها”
― ميخائيل نعيمه, مذكرات الأرقش

“اقرأ لأني أشعر بالجهل ، وبعد القراءة اكتشف ان شعوري بالجهل ازداد اكثر من ذي قبل ...”
― ليلى المطوع

“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.”
― Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay

“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
― Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.”
― M.L Stedman

“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“A small fact:
You are going to die....does this worry you?”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.”
― Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief

“So much good, so much evil. Just add water.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“No, I'm not a saint, Sophie. I'm just another stupid human.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
― Emil Cioran

“If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.”
― Émile Michel Cioran

“I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”
― Emil Cioran

“Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.”
― Emil Cioran

“Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.”
― Émile Michel Cioran

“Tell me how you want to die, and I’ll tell you who you are.”
― Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints

“To have committed every crime but that of being a father.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.”
― Jim Henson

“Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym