Lateefa Eldirais > Lateefa's Quotes

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
― Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

“Tears are words that need to be written.”
― Paulo Coelho

“So what? All writers are lunatics!”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
― Norman Mailer

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
― Anais Nin

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anais Nin

“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in the ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
― Gene Fowler

“If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
― James Michener

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
― Richard Price

“أي علم هذا الذي لم يستطع حتى الآن أن يضع أصوات من نحب في أقراص ، أو زجاجة دواء نتناولها سرًّا ، عندما نصاب بوعكة عاطفية بدون أن يدري صاحبها كم نحن نحتاجه”
― أحلام مستغانمي, عابر سرير

“لتشُفى من حالة عشقية ، يلزمك رفات حب ، لا تمثالاً لحبيب تواصل تلميعه بعد الفراق ، مُصّراً على ذياك البريق الذي انخطفتَ به يوماً .يلزمك قبر ورخام وشجاعة لدفن من كان أقرب الناس إليك”
― أحلام مستغانمي, عابر سرير

“كلُّهم ذَاتَ يومٍ .. تغيمُ سَمَاوَاتُهُمْ ثُم لا يُمْطِروُن!”
― محمد الفيتوري, يأتي العاشقون إليك

“غَائبُ..
والعُيُونُ عليكَ اشْتِياق”
― محمد الفيتوري, يأتي العاشقون إليك

“سلام لانكفاء الأرجل المثقلة التعبى
على أحجارها المثقلة التعبى
سلام لارتعاشات الأيادي والمناجل
لحائط الصفصاف، والكافور
والحور، وأمواج المشاعل
لبحة الناي
وآهات الأراغيل
وإيقاع الجداول
لقامة سمراء، يكسوها الصبا الحلو
وخلخال يغازل
لوجه فلاح عن التربة
والتاريخ، والحب يقاتل
وللعصافير التي تجري مع الأطفال
في عيد السنابل”
― محمد الفيتوري, يأتي العاشقون إليك

“If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with disappointing you. Don’t be with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do. If he’s choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn’t respect your feelings and needs. “Busy” is another word for “asshole.” “Asshole” is another word for the guy you’re dating. You deserve a fcking phone call.”
― Greg Behrendt

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring barque,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
― William Shakespeare, Great Sonnets

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

“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
― Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Let’s start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely. I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts. But I truly believe that the only way you can find out that there’s something better out there is to first believe there’s something better out there. What other choice is there?”
― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You

“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Getting Married

“I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
― Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.”
― Henny Youngman