Sadaf > Sadaf's Quotes

“کلمات همیشه مالِ دیگران است. یک جور میراثی که مثل آوار روی آدم خراب می شود. چون آدم همیشه به زبانی حرف می زند که ساخته ی دیگران است. آدم در ایجاد آن هیچ دخالتی نداسته و هیچ چیز مال خودش نیست. کلمات حکم پول تقلبی را دارند که به آدم قالب کرده باشند. هیچ چیزش نیست که به خیانت آلوده نباشد

رومن گاری__”
― Romain Gary, خداحافظ گاری کوپر

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

“... هيچ کس هرگز کاملآ آزاد نيست. آزادی بشر درست چند ساعت بعد از تولد از او سلب می شود. از همان لحظه ای که برای ما اسمی می گذارند و ما را به خانواده ای نسبت می دهند٬ ديگر فرار غير ممکن ميشود. قادر نيستيم زنجير را پاره کنيم و آزاد باشيم. ساختمان بزرگ اداره ثبت اسناد زندان ماست. همه ما لابه لای اوراق آن کتابها له شده ايم...!”
― Alba de Céspedes, از طرف او

“Friendship is less simple. It is long and hard to obtain but when one has it there's no getting rid of it; one simply has to cope with it. Don't think for a minute that your friends will telephone you every evening, as they ought to, in order to find out if this doesn't happen to be the evening when you are deciding to commit suicide, or simply whether you don't need company, whether you are not in the mood to go out. No, don't worry, they'll ring up the evening you are not alone, when life is beautiful. As for suicide, they would be more likely to push you to it, by virtue of what you owe to yourself, according to them. May heaven protect us, cher Monsieur, from being set upon a pedestal by our friends!”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. You were speaking of the Last Judgement. Allow me to laugh respectfully. I shall wait for it resolutely, for I have known what is worse, the judgement of men. For them, no extenuating circumstances; even the good intention is ascribed to crime. Have you at least heard of the spitting cell, which a nation recently thought up to prove itself the greatest on earth? A walled-up box in which the prisoner can stand without moving. The solid door that locks him in the cement shell stops at chin level. Hence only his face is visible, and every passing jailer spits copiously on it. The prisoner, wedged into his cell, cannot wipe his face, though he is allowed, it is true. to close his eyes. Well, that, mon cher, is a human invention. They didn't need God for that little masterpiece.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall