Sara Mamdouh > Sara's Quotes

“Invisible things are the only realities.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Loss of Breath

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“والله إحنا مصيبتنا سودة، على الأقل أمهاتنا كانوا فاهمين وضعهم، أما إحنا، إحنا ضايعين. لا إحنا فاهمين إذا كنّا حريم ولا مش حريم. إن كان الحب حلال ولا حرام. أهلنا بيقولوا حرام وراديو الحكومة طول الليل والنهار بيغني للحب والكتب بتقول للبنت روحتي انت حرة، وان صدقت البنت تبقى مصيبة، تبقى سمعتها زفت وهباب.. بالذمة دا وضع؟ بالذمة احنا مش غلابة؟!”
― لطيفة الزيات, الباب المفتوح

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
― Jacques Derrida

“لا أريد إضافة أياما إلى حياتى بل أريد إضافة حياة إلى أيامى”
― أحمد بهجت, صائمون.. والله أعلم

“It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!”
― William Carlos Williams

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Marry me, Kiara,” he blurts out in front of everyone.
“Why?” she asks, challenging him.
“Because I love you,” he says, walking up to her and bending down on one knee while he takes her hand in his, “and I want to go to sleep with you every night and wake up seein’ your face every mornin’, I want you to be the mother of my children, I want to fix cars with you and eat your crappy tofu tacos that you think are Mexican. I want to climb mountains with you and be challenged by you, I want to argue with you just so we can have crazy hot makeup sex. Marry me, because without you I’d be six feet under … and because I love your family like they’re my own … and because you’re my best friend and I want to grow old with you.” He starts tearing up, and it’s shocking because I’ve never seen him cry. “Marry me, Kiara Westford, because when I got shot the only thing I was thinkin’ about was comin’ back here and makin’ you my wife. Say yes, chica.”
― Simone Elkeles, Chain Reaction

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

“تُنسى كأنك لم تكُن”
― محمود درويش

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
― Guillermo Del Toro

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
― J.G. Ballard

“The future has an ancient heart.”
― Carlo Levi

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
― William Blake

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
― James Thurber

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Single" means you are brave enough to face the glorious unknown of the unaccompanied journey.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“في يوم صحيت شاعر براحة و صفا الهم زال و الحزن راح و اختفي ... خدني العجب و سألت روحي سؤال .. أنا مت ؟و لا وصلت للفلسفة عجبي”
― صلاح جاهين

“إن الحزن ظاهرة مريحة للوجدان، والإنسان الذي لايفهم الحزن تكون عاطفته مجدودة جداً ويعاني نقصاً وجدانياً وإنسانياً " ناجي العلي.”
― ناجي العلي

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

“أتعرف ما معنى الكلمة؟
مفتاح الجنة في كلمة
دخول النار على كلمه
وقضاء الله هو كلمه
الكلمة لو تعرف حرمه زاد مزخور
...
الكلمة نور ..
وبعض الكلمات قبور
وبعض الكلمات قلاع شامخة يعتصم بها النبل البشري
الكلمة فرقان بين نبي وبغي
بالكلمة تنكشف الغمة
الكلمة نور
ودليل تتبعه الأمة .
عيسى ما كان سوى كلمة
أضاء الدنيا بالكلمات وعلمها للصيادين
فساروا يهدون العالم ..
الكلمة زلزلت الظالم
الكلمة حصن الحرية
إن الكلمة مسؤولية إن الرجل هو كلمة، شرف الله هو الكلمة”
― عبد الرحمن الشرقاوي, الحسين ثائرًا. شهيدًا