Norah A > Norah's Quotes

“I lost a piece of my heart and my soul with you. I buried the piece in the graveyard stretching from Yedikule to Edirnekapı where trees sustain the lives of the dead Istanbulites. Give love to love; love belongs to love. Remember in the times of roaming mortality on land and sea to take a bite of my apple when you let go of your fears. Scared humans are not alive; they inhibited their souls in the realm of the dead. Is it not funny that fear is supposed to help us survive, but it can make us stop living?! Is there a more dangerous threat than living, feeling alive, feeling full of life? Remember to keep the lines clear so you can have a piece of my apple and a cup of my coffee.”
― Rana Abdulfattah, Tiger and Clay: Syria Fragments

“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”
― Herman Melville

“The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man's flaw is that he can deteriorate; and his virtue is that he can improve.”
― -Hasidic saying

“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Powerful people have no regrets.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Sometimes you have to lose to win”
― Gregory David Roberts

“A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or a Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a ration, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic of his own religion”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“It's isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird. If I had to live on without you I know I could not do it. But I hope, I have this vision of you walking unencumbered, with your shining hair in the sun. I have not seen this with my eyes, but only with my imagination, that makes pictures, that always wanted to paint you, shining; but I hope that this vision will be true, anyway.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.”
― Clint Eastwood

“Just married! A bright past is ahead of them!”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“There is truth in wine and children”
― Plato, Symposium / Phaedrus

“The best love is the kind that weakens the soul, that makes us reach for more. That plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie

“All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”
― Mae West, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West

“abyss, n.

There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything you've taken from me, everything I've given you, and the waste of all the time I've spent on us.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”
― Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

“Your relationship may be "Breaking Up," but you won't be "Breaking Down." If anything your correcting a mistake that was hurting four people, you and the person your with, not to mention the two people who you were destined to meet.”
― D. Ivan Young, Break Up, Don't Break Down

“Ocean separates lands, not souls..”
― Munia Khan

“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“recant, v.

I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones. I want to take back the book of artsy photos I gave you, because you didn’t get it and said it was hipster trash. I want to take back what I said about you being an emotional zombie. I want to take back the time I called you “honey” in front of your sister and you looked like I had just shown her pictures of us having sex. I want to take back the wineglass I broke when I was mad, because it was a nice wineglass and the argument would have ended anyway. I want to take back the time we had sex in a rent-a-car, not because I feel bad about the people who got in the car after us, but because it was massively uncomfortable. I want to take back the trust I had while you were away in Austin. I want to take back the time I said you were a genius, because I was being sarcastic and I should have just said you’d hurt my feelings. I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“قُلْ لي – ولو كذباً – كلاماً ناعماً

قد كادً يقتُلُني بك التمثالُ

مازلتِ في فن المحبة .. طفلةً

بيني وبينك أبحر وجبالُ

لم تستطيعي ، بَعْدُ ، أن تَتَفهَّمي

أن الرجال جميعهم أطفالُ

إنِّي لأرفضُ أن أكونَ مهرجاً

قزماً .. على كلماته يحتالُ

فإذا وقفت أمام حسنك صامتاً

فالصمتُ في حَرَم الجمال جمالُ

كَلِماتُنا في الحُبِّ .. تقتلُ حُبَّنَا

إن الحروف تموت حين تقال..

قصص الهوى قد أفسدتك .. فكلها

غيبوبةُ .. وخُرافةٌ .. وخَيَالُ

الحب ليس روايةً شرقيةً

بختامها يتزوَّجُ الأبطالُ

لكنه الإبحار دون سفينةٍ

وشعورنا ان الوصول محال

هُوَ أن تَظَلَّ على الأصابع رِعْشَةٌ

وعلى الشفاهْ المطبقات سُؤالُ

هو جدول الأحزان في أعماقنا

تنمو كروم حوله .. وغلالُ..

هُوَ هذه الأزماتُ تسحقُنا معاً ..

فنموت نحن .. وتزهر الآمال

هُوَ أن نَثُورَ لأيِّ شيءٍ تافهٍ

هو يأسنا .. هو شكنا القتالُ

هو هذه الكف التي تغتالنا

ونُقَبِّلُ الكَفَّ التي تَغْتالُ

*

لا تجرحي التمثال في إحساسهِ

فلكم بكى في صمته .. تمثالُ

قد يُطْلِعُ الحَجَرُ الصغيرُ براعماً

وتسيل منه جداولٌ وظلالُ

إني أُحِبُّكِ من خلال كآبتي

وجهاً كوجه الله ليس يطالُ

حسبي وحسبك .. أن تظلي دائماً

سِراً يُمزِّقني .. وليسَ يُقالُ ..”
― نزار قباني, الرسم بالكلمات

“إن اللغة العربية تضايقهم لأنهم لا يستطيعون قراءتها . . . والعبارة العربية تزعجهم لأنهم لا يستطيعون تركيبها . . وهم مقتنعون أن كل العصور التي سبقتهم هي عصور انحطاط ، وأنَّ كل ما كتبه العرب من شعر منذ الشنفرى حتى اليوم . . هو شعر رديء ومنحط . .
تسأل الواحد منهم عن المتنبي ، فينظر إليكَ باشمئزاز كأنك تحدثه عن الزائدة الدودية ، وحين تسأله عن (الأغاني) و (العقد الفريد) و (البيان والتبيين) و (نهج البلاغة) و (طوق الحمامة) يرد عليك بأنه لا يشتري اسطوانات عربية ولا يحضر أفلاماً عربية . . ، إنهم يريدون أن يفتحوا العالم وهم عاجزون عن فتح كتاب . . ، ويريدون أن يخوضوا البحر وهم يتزحلقون بقطرة ماء . . ويبشرون بثورة ثقافية تحرق الأخضر واليابس . . وثقافتهم لا تتجاوز باب المقهى الذي يجلسون فيه .. وعناوين الكتب المترجمة التي سمعوا عنها . .”
― نزار قباني, الكتابة عمل انقلابي

“وحين نكون معاً في الطريق
وتأخذ -من غير قصد- ذراعي
أحسُ أنا ياصديق
.بشيئَّ عميق”
― نزار قباني, حبيبتي

“Our shouting is louder than our actions,
Our swords are taller than us,
This is our tragedy.
In short
We wear the cape of civilisation
But our souls live in the stone age”
― Nizar Qabbani