Elaf Hamra > Elaf's Quotes

“There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Villette

“No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and to such shadows of peculiarity as were engrained in my nature - shades, certainly not striking enough to interest, and perhaps not prominent enough to offend, but born in and with me, and no more to be parted with than my identity - but slow degrees I became a frequenter of this straight narrow path.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“إن المرأة تحب رجلها ليس لأنه أقوى الرجال، و لا أوسمهم، و لا أغناهم، بل لأنه هو.. بضعفه و قوته.. و الحب ليس إستعراض قوة لكنه طاقة عطاء دافئة مستمرة”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“عبقرية هي الفتاة التي تجيد التفرقة بين الدلال والميوعة ..! لو قابلتها يا بني فلتتبعها لآخر العالم”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“الخجل ينبع من توهمك لأهمية مبالغ فيها لنفسك .. أنت لست مهماً كما تعتقد .. لست مهماً على الإطلاق وليس هناك شخص متفرغ لمراقبة خلجاتك وأخطائك”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, زغازيغ

“سقط القناع.. عن القناع.. عن القناع..
سقط القناع ..
لا إخوة لك يا أخي،,,لاأصدقاء !
يا صديقي،,,لا قلاع !
لا الماء عندك،لا الدواء , لا السماء, ولا الدماء ..
ولا الشراع ولاالأمام ولا الوراء..
حاصر حصارك .. .لا مفرُّ !
سقطت ذراعك فالتقطها !
واضرِبْ عدوك..لا مفر ..
وسَقَطْتُ قربك،فالتقطني !
واضرب عدوك بي،فأنت الآن :
حرٌّ
حرٌّ
وحرُّ
قتلاك .. أو جرحاك فيك ذخيرة !
فاضرب بها ! اضرب عدوك..لا مفرُّ !
أشلاؤنا أسماؤنا..أسماؤنا أشلاؤنا
حاصر حصارك بالجنون !
وبالجنون !
وبالجنون !
ذهب الذين تحبهم،ذهبوا..
فإما أن ( تكون )
أو ( لا تكون )
سقط القناع عن القناع
سقط القناع،ولا أحد إلّاك في هذا المدى المفتوح للأعداء والنسيان !
فاجعل كل متراس بلد !
لا..لاأحد
سقط القناع ..
عَرَبٌ أطاعوا رومَهم ..
عرب وباعوا روحهم ..
عرب..وضاعوا
سقط القناع عن القناع
سقط القناع ....”
― محمود درويش, المختار من شعر محمود درويش

“كلنا يا بني نسافر وحدنا فى نهاية الامر”
― الطيب صالح, Season of Migration to the North

“لا تلين
و لو سرقوا آمال السنين
و أداروا الكأس ليلا ..
و تمايلوا على نتح الأنين
لا تلين ..
ولو وأدوا أبناءك قبل مرحلة الجنين
و أخرجوا أباك من أدراج المشارح
وجه حزين .. لا تلين”
― نور الدين الصادق, بعض هذا القرنفل

“ مشكلتي ليست مع أحد غير نفسي ، فأين أهرب منها ”
― نور الدين الصادق, بعض هذا القرنفل

“التنازلات لا تأتي إلا بالمهانة، أخذت أمسح دموعي بماء النيل ولكنني أحسست كأني أمسح الدمع بالدمع، كأنما كان النيل يبكي.”
― نور الدين الصادق, بعض هذا القرنفل

“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“بعد فترة تتعلم الفرق الواهي
بين الإمساك بيد وبين تكبيل روح،
وتتعلم أن الحب لا يعني الاتكاء
وأن الصحبة لا تعني الأمان.
وتبدأ بالتعلم أن القبل لا تعني اتفاقات مبرمة
وأن الهدايا ليست وعوداً
وتبدأ بتقبل هزائمك
مع رأسك مرفوع وعينيك مفتوحتين
بسمو إمرأة، وليس بحزن طفل،
وتتعلم بناء كل دروبك على يومك الحاضر
لأن أرض الغد غير جديرة بالثقة بالنسبة الى الخطط
بعد فترة تتعلم...
إنه حتى أشعة الشمس تحرق إذا بالغت في الاقتراب.
لذا تقوم بزرع حديقتك وتزيّن روحك
بدلاً من انتظار شخص ما ليحضر لك الزهور.
وتتعلم أنه بمقدورك حقاً الاحتمال...
انك حقاً قوي
وأنك تطوي قيمتك بداخلك...
وتتعلم وتتعلم...
مع كل وداع تتعلم.”
― خورخي لويس بورخيس

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
― Sylvia Plath

“Is there no way out of the mind?”
― Sylvia Plath

“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath