Mariam > Mariam's Quotes

“Heute geht es mir besser, ich bin fast ein Mensch.”
― Herta Müller, The Land of Green Plums

“In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.”
― Herta Müller, The Land of Green Plums

“When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.”
― Herta Müller, The Land of Green Plums

“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?”
― Amin Maalouf, Ports of Call

“You changed the subject."
"From what?"
"The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy."
"You know."
"Know what?"
"That I only have eyes for you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Es ist so gut, das zu wissen: daß in uns drinnen einer ist, der alles weiß, alles will, alles besser macht als wir selber.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Der Vogel kämpft sich aus dem Ei. Das Ei ist die Welt. Wer geboren werden will, muss eine Welt zerstören.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“لا يصل المرء إلى بيته أبداً. ولكن حيث الطرق المتآلفة تتقاطع مع العالم كله يبدو كأنه البيت ولفترة قصيرة.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Je vais vous dire un grand secret ... . N'attendez pas le Jugement dernier. Il a lieu tous les jours.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“تحبین الأطفال ؟.. برافو .. لكنھم طبعًا ھؤلاء الأطفال الذين يظھرون على علب الألبان الصناعیة .. لو استطعت أن تحبي طفلاً قذرًا فقیرًا مبلل الثیاب يتزاحم الذباب والمخاط حول وجھه فأنا أقر لك بأنك أنثى كاملة..”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“ليتنا أنا وأنت جئنا العالم قبل اختراع التلفزيون والسينما لنعرف هل هذا حب حقًا أم أننا نتقمص ما نراه ؟”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“ إن الانغلاق في ذهنية المعتدى عليه أكثر خطرا على الضحية من العدوان ذاته. ”
― أمين معلوف

“بالنسبة لهذا الكتاب , أتقدم بأمنية معاكسة : أن يكتشفه حفيدي عندما يصبح رجلاً , في مكتبة العائلة بالمصادفة فيقلبه و يتصفحه قليلاً ثم يعيده إلى المكان المغبر الذي سحبه منه , و يهز أكتافه مستغربا أنه في زمن جده كانت هناك حاجة بعد لقول مثل هذه الاشياء.”
― أمين معلوف

“Though these young men unhappily fail to understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices, and that to sacrifice, for instance, five or six years of their seething youth to hard and tedious study, if only to multiply tenfold their powers of serving the truth and the cause they have set before them as their goal such a sacrifice is utterly beyond the strength of many of them.”
― Dostoevsky F.

“but he believed solely because he desired to believe and possibly he fully believed in his secret heart even when he said, ‘I do not believe till I see.”
― Dostoevsky F.