Tarfa > Tarfa's Quotes

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue, Death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real suffering is less futile; it comes from the discovery that grief, too, cannot last. Even grief is vanity!”
― Albert Camus, Caligula

“Throughout this period, all my thoughts and all my actions involved the repetition of history. I wanted to turn the present back into the past, opening on to happiness.”
― Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

“Anyway, the phrase 'if only' meant nothing in life. He was the product of his choices, and that was all there was to it.”
― Sanaka Hiiragi, The Lantern of Lost Memories

“You know how the photos you treasure the most are the ones you always get out to look at, so they end up all faded and torn? Well, it's the same with memories.”
― Sanaka Hiiragi, The Lantern of Lost Memories

“If the man in her dream had taught her one thing above all else, it was hope. The ability to keep bouncing back. To keep raising her voice against the madness of the world.”
― Sanaka Hiiragi, The Lantern of Lost Memories

“I don't like it when people with only a general education rush to solve problems best left to specialists; and that happens all of the time among us.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Bobok

“أعدل السِّيَرِ أن تقيس الناس بنفسك، فلا تأتي إليهم إلا ما ترضى أن يؤتى إليكَ. المقفع.”
― عبد الله بن المقفع, الأدب الصغير والأدب الكبير