Hala Alzaghal > Hala's Quotes

“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“The word 'personal' is one of my aversions. Personal loan. Personal hygiene. Personal safety. It's only a way of wrapping up bad news that you're in debt, or dirty, or likely to be mugged.”
― Helen Dunmore, Ice Cream

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
― Mona Van Duyn

“يا للخسارة! لقد ضعف بصري، وإني مهدد بفقده نهائيًا ذات يوم، ولم يبق من العمر إلا أيام، وما زالت البشرية تعاني العذاب والقلق، وما زلنا نموت مخلّفين ورائنا أملًا قد تحقق ونسى.”
― نجيب محفوظ, قلب الليل

“صُـدفَـةً شاهـدتُـني
في رحلـتي منّي إِلَيْ.
مُسرِعاً قبّلتُ عينيَّ
وصافحـتُ يَـدَيْ
قُلتُ لي : عفـواً ..فلا وقتَ لَدَيْ .
أنَـا مضْطَـرٌ لأن أتْرُكَـني،
باللـهِ ..
سـلِّمْ لـي عَلَـيْ !”
― أحمد مطر

“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
― Eugene O'Neill

“The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

“Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings”
― John Gillespie MaGee Jr.

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
― Katharine Graham

“خسرتها لأنني عرفت قيمتها الحقيقية”
― نجيب محفوظ, صدى النسيان

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“النهارده كنت كويس قدام الناس .. بس ما كنتش أنا، ومش عارف إمتى هاكون كويس وأنا!”
― فؤاد حداد

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
― J.M. Coetzee

“Over the river and through the wood
To grandfather's house we go”
― Lydia Maria Francis Child

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

“I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.”
― Herman Melville