Ahmed Youssef > Ahmed's Quotes

“هتف جمصة البلطي في هدأة الليل تحت النخلة "اللهم حررني من أمس.. اللهم حررني من غد”
― نجيب محفوظ_ليالى الف ليلة

“قال الشيخ عبد ربه التائه : أطبق الشر على الإنسان من جميع النواحى ،فأبدع الإنسان الخير فى جميع المسالك”
― نجيب محفوظ, أصداء السيرة الذاتية

“I call it "Higher Power" not to exclude any cultures/religions, as I feel everyone is pointing in the same direction, with different names, from different perspectives.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“منفىً هو العالم الخارجيُّ
ومنفىً هو العالم الداخليُّ
من أَنت بينهما؟
لا أُعرِّفُ نفسي تماماً
لئلاّ أُضيِّعها. و أَنا ما أَنا
وأنا آخري في ثُنَائيّةٍ
تتناغم بين الكلام وبين الإشارةْ.
ولو كنت أكتب شعراً لقلت:

أنا اثنان في واحد
كجناحَيْ سُنُونُوّةٍ ,
إن تأخَّر فَصْلُ الربيع”
― محمود درويش, كزهر اللوز أو أبعد

“You said, "I will go to another land, I will go to another sea.

Another city will be found, better than this.

Every effort of mine is condemned by fate;

and my heart is-like a corpse-buried.

How long in this wasteland will my mind remain.

Wherever I turn my eyes, wherever I may look

I see the black ruins of my life here,

where I spent so many years, and ruined and wasted."

New lands you will not find, you will not find other seas.

The city will follow you. You will roam the same

streets. And you will age in the same neighborhoods;

in these same houses you will grow gray.

Always you will arrive in this city. To another land-do not hope-

there is no ship for you, there is no road.

As you have ruined your life here

in this little corner, you have destroyed it in the whole world.2”
― C.P. Cavafy

“The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club