Mohammed El-sayed > Mohammed's Quotes

“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.”
― William Faulkner

“يا ناس يا عبط يا عشمانين..
ف فرصه تانيه للقا..
بطلوا اوهام بقي..
وكفايه أحلام واسمعوا..
عيشوا بذمه و ودعوا..
كل حاجة بتعملوها..
وكل حد بتشوفوه..
وكل كلمه بتقولوها..
وكل لحن بتسمعوه..
عيشوا المشاهد... كل مشهد..
زي مايكون الأخير..
واشبعوا ساعة الوداع ….
واحضنوا الحاجه بـضمير..
دا اللي فاضل مش كتير ….
اللي فاضل..
مش كتير”
― مصطفى إبراهيم, ويسترن يونيون فرع الهرم

“I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.”
― Og Mandino

“أنا أؤمن بقول يقول إن الإنسان لا يموت دفعة واحدة ،
كلما مات له قريب أو صديق أو واحد من معارفه
فإن الجزء الذي كان يحتله هذا الصديق أو القريب ...
يموت في نفس هذا الإنسان !..
ومع الأيام وتتابع سلسلة الموت ...
تكثر الأجزاء التي تموت داخلنا ...
تكبر المساحة التي يحتلها الموت ...
و أنا يا لينا ... أحمل مقبرة كبيرة داخلي ، تفتح هذه القبور أبوابها ليلاً ...
ينظر إليّ نزلاؤها .. يحادثونني ويعاتبونني .”
― مصطفى خليفة, القوقعة: يوميات متلصص

“It is better to have been, then not to have been, then to have been nothing at all." What truly is logic? Who decides reason? "It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found."-JOHN NASH JR.”
― JOHN NASH

“I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth. ”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“All men fear death. It’s a natural fear that consumes us all. We fear death because we feel that we haven’t loved well enough or loved at all, which ultimately are one and the same. However, when you make love with a truly great woman, one that deserves the utmost respect in this world and one that makes you feel truly powerful, that fear of death completely disappears. Because when you are sharing your body and heart with a great woman the world fades away. You two are the only ones in the entire universe. You conquer what most lesser men have never conquered before, you have conquered a great woman’s heart, the most vulnerable thing she can offer to another. Death no longer lingers in the mind. Fear no longer clouds your heart. Only passion for living, and for loving, become your sole reality. This is no easy task for it takes insurmountable courage. But remember this, for that moment when you are making love with a woman of true greatness you will feel immortal.
I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving or not loving well, which is the same thing. And when the man who is brave and true looks death squarely in the face like some rhino hunters I know or Belmonte, who is truly brave, it is because they love with sufficient passion to push death out of their minds. Until it returns, as it does to all men. And then you must make really good love again. Think about it.”
― Woody Allen

“هذا العالم
نُشيِّده فينهار،
ثمَّ نُشيِّده ثانيةً
فننهار نحن!”
― راينر ماريا ريلكه

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

“Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you've got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.”
― David Milch

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“To live is to war with trolls.”
― Henrik Ibsen

“To live is - to war with trolls
In the holds of the heart and mind”
― Henrik Ibsen

“To live is to war with trolls in heart and soul.
To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.”
― Henrik Johan Ibsen, Peer Gynt

“I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a little bit of calm along with a bit of bread, not to feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist, not to demand anything from others, and not to have others demand anything from me - this was denied me, like the spare change we might deny a beggar not because we're mean-hearted but because we don't feel like unbuttoning our coat.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

“تفرانيل 100
انا شعرى غامق
بس قلبى مطقطق ابيض من زمان
جايز عشان
الناس ساعات بتلاقى ناس
تعرف تشوفها بجد
و انا قلبى لسه عمره ما اتكشف ع حد
بقابل اد ما اقابل
و افارق اد ما افارق
و ما اتعلمش
بلخبط ف الاسامى عشان
بخاف انسى
بلخبط ف الدنيا عشان
بخاف لا ما اعيشش
بقالى كتير ما بتكلمش
بخاف يبقى الكلام متعاد
ما كملتش ف اى رحيل
ما كملتش ف اى قعاد
و بدى للحياة بالكاد
ما يكفيها
و يكفينى
شرور البهدلة فيها
مليش ف البنت طلبات غير
تنسينى اللى قبليها
و بدخل ف حاجات تخاطيف
و عينى ع اللى بعديها
رقصت كتير ع السلم
بخاف اطلع
و اخاف من الارض
- اكيد الخوف مش الفكرة
و حتى يا ستى يعنى بفرض
اكيد الخوف مهواش عيب
طبيعى الناس تخاف من الغيب
و من المقدور
برغم كدة
بحب الضلمة اكتر ما بحب النور
ساعات بتمنى شقة ف برج شايفة النيل
و اوقات انى اعيش مستور
و بزهد .. ف كل ما ف الرحلة من زخرف
و ما زهدهاش
ما دام فيها رمق يتعاش
اكيد ف الرحلة يوم متحاش
و مستنى اعدى عليه
- و تعرف عنه اصلا اية ؟
مفيش غير انه لسه مجاش
بنام ؟
طبعا .. كتير جدا
و بالايام
و طول الوقت بحلم ان انا بجرى
و بشبع من الحاجات بدرى
و رغم كدة لسه ما شبعتش
من الجرى و من الاحلام
بخاف من الموت
عشان خايف ساعتها اكون
عبيط .. كل اللى سيبته كلام
بشوف افلام
عن الدنيا
و عن حكايات
لناس عاشت حاجات تانية
و عن حكايات لناس ماعاشوش
و بتأثر
و بتحسر
ع كل اللى كان ممكن
اكونه
بس ما بقيتهوش
ما سبتش شئ مجربتوش
ولا جربته و ما سبتوش
بحب العود
و احب الناى
و اموت و اعرف حقيقى ازاى
حاجات من دى
ساعات بتدب فيها الروح
من اللمس و من الانفاس
فتبقى حية اكتر من البشر و الناس
مفيش احساس
لحسن الحظ و لسوئه
ما بيعديش
مفيش ولا طعم حاجة من اللى بتدوقه
مسيره يعيش
بحلوه و بمره كله بيتسخط لمفيش
يا سبحان اللى بيعودنا ع الحاجة
فننساها
و بيخفف كاسات الناس
بميه بدال ما يملاها
عشان طعم اللى فيها يروح
عشان طعم اللى فيها يخف
يقولوا مجازا المجروح
اذا خد ع الوجع .. بيخف
تلف عليه سواقى الكون
تدوب اللى فات
ف الجاى
ف سبحانه اما قال
منها جعلنا
( كل شئ حى )
زمان فيه حد علمنا
ف درس الدين
دعاء بيقول :
يا خالق كل شئ ناقص .. كمالته معاك
يا شايل من الحاجات حتة .. بنترجاك
بحق المشهد الكامل
و اسمك اللى انا عرفته
تسيب اللى يكفينا
و تكفينا بما سبته
ما تحوجناش
لجاى مجاش
و ترضينا بما جبته
و ندعى وراه بصوت عالى
يرج الفصل رج خفيف
و اكمل دعوتى ف سرى
( و ترحم قلبى ف شيبته )
كما تدعو الفروع الاصل
دعوتها
ف كل خريف”
― مصطفى إبراهيم, المانيفستو

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.

Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.”
― Oscar Wilde, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including the Ballad of Reading Gaol

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

“We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

- The Hollow Men”
― T.S. Eliot, Poems: 1909-1925

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

“Datta, dayadhvam, damyata
(Give, sympathize, control)”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems