Ahlam Karrouchi > Ahlam's Quotes

“Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Life is an adventure in forgiveness”
― Norman Cousins

“If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.”
― Norman Cousins

“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
― Emil Cioran

“Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”
― Emil Cioran

“Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.”
― Emil Cioran

“Tears do not burn except in solitude.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“لا وجود إلا لعلامة واحدة تشهد على أننا فهمنا كل شىء: أن نبكي بلا سبب”
― Emil Cioran

“غموض: كلمة نستعملها لخداع الآخرين، لإيهامهم بأننا أكثر عمقاً منهم.”
― Emil Cioran, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“She had power over the most magnificent forces on Earth, but she still didn’t feel like she had power over the most important thing of all—her own heart.”
― Josephine Angelini, Goddess

“Please don't give me words; give me a hug. Don't tell me that I'm holding up so well; break down with me and admit our shared wretchedness. Don't feign some bright mountaintop; walk with me through the dark valley where neither of us can utter a word.”
― Robert Dykstra, She Never Said Good-Bye

“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“What do I do now?

I didn't think my heart could break any more than it already has.

The pieces still inside of me feel like broken glass.

Every time I take a breath, they stab into me.

It never ends....”
― H.M. Ward

“Love doesn't come along too often. Believe me, I know. When it does, only the foolish let it fade. Even if it is him.”
― H.M. Ward, Demon Kissed

“I think things that i shouldn't.I dream things that i shouldn't.I want things that i shouldn't and it's all because of one thing-- I do care about you.”
― H.M. Ward, Damaged

“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“He was't just my exception. He was my reason.”
― S.L. Jennings, Fear of Falling

“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't coma back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head.”
― Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins

“Love heals scars love left”
― Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins

“You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist