Mariam El Makdad > Mariam's Quotes

“i don’t know what living a balanced life feels like
when i am sad
i don’t cry i pour
when i am happy
i don’t smile i glow
when i am angry
i don’t yell i burn
the good thing about
feeling in extremes
is when i love
i give them wings
but perhaps
that isn't
such a good thing
cause they always
tend to leave and
you should see me
when my heart is broken
i don't grieve
i shatter”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“your art
is not about how many people
like your work
your art
is about
if your heart likes your work
if your soul likes your work
it's about how honest
you are with yourself
and you
must never
trade honesty
for relatability”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“و المذيعون خِراف .. و الإذاعات خُرافة .. و عقول المستنيرين صناديق صِرافة .. كيف تأتينا النظافة؟”
― أحمد مطر

“غريب أن أبقى محتفظة بنفس النظرة إلى شخص ما طوال ثلاثين عاماً، أن يمضي الزمن وتمر السنوات وتتبدل المشاهد وتبقى صورته كما قرّت في نفسي في لقاءاتنا الأولى”
― رضوى عاشور, فرج

“قلت لها مغضبًا: لماذا تميل النساء إلى الرجال الأوغاد الذين لا يوحون بأي ثقة؟
قالت في برود: مثلما تنجذبون معشر الرجال إلى الفتيات المائعات اللاتي لا يعرفن كيف يرعين طفلًا أو يحفظن بيتًا.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“كوني ما شئتِ ، ليمسخ الإهمال صورتك ، ليقس الضنا على محياك ، بل فليشوهك الزمن الذي لا يرحم .. فأنتِ أنتِ عندي .. آخر علمي وذوقي ومنتهي تجربتي”
― يحيى حقي, قنديل أم هاشم

“يحدث أحيانا
أن تصاب بالاكتئاب
فتشعر بتفاهة الأحداث حولك
وتزهد بكل طقوس الحياة المحيطة بك
وتفقد الأشياء قيمتها وأهميتها لديك
ويخيل إليك أن الحياة توقفت عن النبض
وتتساوى لديك الأمكنة والأوقات
وتبقى وحيدا ....وتبقى بعيدا
لاشيء معك سوى إحساسك المقيت
وتفشل كل محاولاتهم لانتزاعك من وحدتك
وقد تبقى في دائرة الاكتئاب فترة طويلة
وقد ...تشرق شمس الأمل فجأة
فتشرق معها قابليتك للحياة من جديد !”
― شهرزاد الخليج

“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“‎"she’ mad but she’
magic. there’ no lie in her fire.”
― Charles Bukowski

“ لا غايةَ لي، أسيرُ و حسب ”
― بسام حجار, مجرد تعب

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.”
― Federico García Lorca

“There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.”
― Ryszard Kapuściński, Travels with Herodotus

“When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself”
― Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Other

“People are not hungry because there is no food in the world. There is plenty of it; there is a surplus in fact. But between those who want to eat and the bursting warehouses stands a tall obstacle indeed: politics.”
― Ryszard Kapuściński, The Shadow of the Sun

“Three plagues, three contagions, threaten the world.
The first is the plague of nationalism.
The second is the plague of racism.
The third is the plague of religious fundamentalism.
All three share one trait, a common denominator--an aggressive, all-powerful, total irrationality. Anyone stricken with one of these plagues is beyond reason. In his head burns a sacred pyre that awaits its sacrificial victims.”
― Ryszard Kapuściński, Imperium

“It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind.”
― Otto Rank, Beyond Psychology

“لـأنك ِ تُشرقين دومـاً ، ما عاد الليل يزعجني”
― Walaa Walkademagmal, بدايات همسات مسائية

“There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live more vividly than many men and women. There are phrases from literary works that have a positively human personality. There are passages from my own writing that chill me with fright, so distinctly do I feel them as people, so sharply outlined do they appear against the walls of my room, at night, in shadows... I've written sentences whose sound, read out loud or silently (impossible to hide their sound), can only be of something that acquired absolute exteriority and a full-fledged soul.”
― Pessoa, Fernando, The Book of Disquiet

“When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“Swallow your poison, for you need it badly.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“لابد من وجود كاتب رديء باستمرار، وذلك لأنه يشبع ذوق الأجيال الشابة التي لم تتطور بعد. ولهذه الأجيال حاجات كالآخرين تماماً، ولو كانت الحياة الإنسانية أطول لكان عدد الناضجين يفوق أو يعادل عدد اللاناضجين، أي أن هناك دوماً غالبية من العقول المتخلفة ذات الذوق الرديء. هذه العقول تطالب، وبكل عنف الشباب، بإرضاء وإشباع حاجاتها وتسبب وجود كتّاب رديئين مخصصين لها.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
― Augusten Burroughs

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day.

I told them this story:
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”
― Tom Waits