Farah > Farah's Quotes

“I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“All good things in life are fragile and easily lost”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a treacherous illusion".”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“After all, life is not a Hindi movie.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blured by. An indifferent life.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Who, being loved, is poor?”
― Oscar Wilde

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
― Oscar Wilde

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“My hobbies include: editing my life story, hiding behind metaphors, and trying to convince my shadow that I’m someone worth following.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

“Remember, every year two million people die of dehydration. So it doesn’t matter if the glass is half full or half empty. There’s water in the cup. Drink it and stop complaining.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

“THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? How do you sell an anti-ageing moisturiser? You make someone worry about ageing. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them worry about immigration. How do you get them to buy insurance? By making them worry about everything. How do you get them to have plastic surgery? By highlighting their physical flaws. How do you get them to watch a TV show? By making them worry about missing out. How do you get them to buy a new smartphone? By making them feel like they are being left behind. To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive