Ramy Mostafa > Ramy's Quotes

“I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything you had
and how I
offered you what was left of
me,
and I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your records
your books
our morning coffee
our noons our nights
our bodies spilled together
sleeping
the tiny flowing currents
immediate and forever
your leg my leg
your arm my arm
your smile and the warmth
of you
who made me laugh
again.”
― Charles Bukowski

“there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even during the
best moments
and
the greatest times
times

we will know it

we will know it
more than
ever

there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
and

we will wait
and
wait

in that space.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter. Most people make too much of it. On these grounds a good fuck is not to be entirely scorned. But that's the result of a chance meeting too. You're damned right. Drink up. We'll have another.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I drive around the streets
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Sunshine, if I ever disappear, please tell people that I ran after the Devil, trying to get my soul back.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

“Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems

“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“يا مَن على الحب ينسانا ونذكره .... لسوف تذكرنا يوماً وننساكا
إن الظلام الذي يجلوك يا قمرٌ .... له صباح متى تدركه أخفاكا”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, السحاب الأحمر

“آه .. آه ، إن الله لا ينعّم قلباً في الدنيا على أسلوب النعيم في الآخرة ، ولكنه ترك للناس أن يعذبوا أنفسهم هنا على نحو ما هنالك ، فكلما طفئت لهم نار أوقدوا غيرها يحترقون فيها ليذوقوا العذاب لا ليموتوا !”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, السحاب الأحمر

“ألا إنما الإنسان من الأقدار كالنبات بين الفأس التي تَحرثُ له والمِنْجَلِ الذي يحصد فيه، وما هذه الدنيا إلا هذان، فلا يحسبنَّ العودُ الطالع أنه شيءٌ غيرُ هذا العود المقطوع”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, السحاب الأحمر

“The past is relevant only as data.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon