Malak Alrashed > Malak's Quotes

“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the
readiness is all.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Literature had taken possession even of her memories. She was matching him, presumably, with certain characters in the old novels...”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble.”
― Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

“I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw — the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am! Why can't I say that, Willy?”
― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

“Standing there on the embankment, staring into the current, I realized that—in spite of all the risks involved—a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“حتى لو لم تكوني ما أنت عليه من حضور
باهر، سأكون أنا ما أنا عليه من غياب
فيك.. باطن وظاهر. شفاف حضورك بلوري
أرى ما وراءه من حدائق فأخطف إلى
متاهات عليا لا يبلغها خيال تبهجه سعة
المجاز
ويخرجه فقر الكلام المتداول.”
― محمود درويش, أثر الفراشة

“إن جهل الجهل هو أصعب عوائق المعرفة فالذي يجهل جهله لا يحاول أن يتعلم والذي تغيب عن ذهنه إحتمالات الخطأ لا يكون حذراً في إصدار الأحكام ولايضع بإعتباره ما تلحقه أحكامه بالآخرين من أذى ولا ماتسببه للحقيقة من تشوية.”
― إبراهيم البليهي, بنية التخلف