Suzanne Abou Reslan > Suzanne's Quotes

“Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“عندما يكون لدي منزلي الخاص، سأكون بائسة إن لم أمتلك مكتبة مميزة .
❤”
― جين أوستن

“إغماض العينين لن يغيّر في شيء
لا شيء سيختفي لمجرد إنك لا تريد أن تراه
بل سيزداد الأمر سوءا في المرة التالية التي تنظر فيها
هذا هو العالم الذي نحيا فيه
الجبان فقط هو من يغمض عينيه !”
― هاروكي موراكامي, Kafka on the Shore

“لا بد من غلق الأشياء بعد فتحها، ولا بد من إعادة الأشياء إلى أماكنها!”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“ومن ثم لم يعد يصدق ما يراه وراح يعتقد أن الحياة الحقيقية للفرد، أن الحياة الممتعة حقا هي التي تجري في الخفاء وتحت ستار من الليل. والحقيقة أن كل حياة فردية محفوفة بالأسرار ، وربما كان هذا هو السبب الرئيسي في أن جميع المثقفين يلحون كل الالحاح في المطالبة باحترام الأسرار الشخصية”
― Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Little Dog

“My friend, healthy and normal people are only the common herd.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Black Monk

“و من المحقق أن المعرفة تتقدم، فتقدمها لا يقاوم و هي تتقدم بالفعل بسرعة مضطردة، أكبر دائما، ولكن ماذا في هذا يستحق الثناء؟ ذلك تطور طبيعي بل و قبيح لا أمد فيه ما يشاد به، بوسعي أن أرى الاضمحلال في كل ما يقال فحسب، لكني في غمار فولي ذلك لا أقصد أن الأجيال السابقة كانت أفضل بصورة جوهرية من جيلنا، و إنما هي أكثر تفاهة، و قد كانت تلك ميزتها الكبرى، فلم تكن ذكراها مثقلة المهابة على نحو ما هي ذاكرتنا اليوم”
― فرانز كافكا, Investigations of a Dog

“I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

“We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

“There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

“This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn’t a place for me.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

“No, freedom was not what I wanted. Only a way out; right or left, or in any direction; I made no other demand; even should the way out prove to be an illusion; the demand was a small one, the disappointment could be no bigger.”
― Franz Kafka, A Report for an Academy

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense",”
― Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis

“I only fear danger where I want to fear it.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“إنه النسيان الألف للحلم الذي ترائي ألف مرة، وتم نسيانه ألف مرة.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“de no estar empeñado en la búsqueda, esto me daría sueño.”
― Franz Kafka, The Great Wall of China and other Stories

“Mientras no dejes de subir no tienen término los escalones; bajo tus pies que ascienden, crecen ellos hacia lo alto.”
― Franz Kafka, The Great Wall of China and other Stories

“Because,” said the hunger artist, lifting his head a little and, with his lips pursed as if for a kiss, speaking right into the supervisor’s ear so that he wouldn’t miss anything, “because I couldn’t find a food which I enjoyed. If had found that, believe me, I would not have made a spectacle of myself and would have eaten to my heart’s content, like you and everyone else.” Those were his last words, but in his failing eyes there was the firm, if no longer proud, conviction that he was continuing to fast.”
― Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“True friends are always together in spirit.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... yet.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“قد خلق الإنسان على صورة الله و مثاله و إليكم ما يفعلون به”
― مكسيم غوركي, Mother

“But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has it under his feathers.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

“My heart is beating as though it were waiting for something.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories