Quotes - S. Mehdi (mousavismehdi) (Babolsar, Iran) Showing 1-30 of 287

#1

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: life

4859 likes

#2

“Life itself is a quotation.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#3

“همیشه با کسی
قرار ملاقات دارم
که نمی آید . . .
نام او در خاطرم نیست”
― عباس کیارستمی, Walking with the Wind

9 likes

#4

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

tags: family, first-sentence

8026 likes

#5

“When the mind swings by a grass-blade
an ant’s forefoot shall save you”
― Ezra Pound

3 likes

#6

“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: beauty, conditioning, feminism, inequality, misogyny, stereotypes, women

456 likes

#7

“And high above, depicted in a tower,
Sat Conquest, robed in majesty and power,
Under a sword that swung above his head,
Sharp-edged and hanging by a subtle thread.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

26 likes

#8

“You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”
― Edward Said

tags: colonialism, imperialism, israile, palestine, postcolonialism, victim

753 likes

#9

“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: two-english-poems

670 likes

#11

“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: dreams, life

614 likes

#11

“To avoid disappointment in art, one mustn't treat it as a career.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

8 likes

#12

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

4235 likes

#14

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29735 likes

#15

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: love, time

1543 likes

#15

“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: pride, reading, writers

1289 likes

#16

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books

3668 likes

#17

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

775 likes

#19

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: life-memories

6513 likes

#20

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

tags: love, sadness

4109 likes

#21

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

5848 likes

#22

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

4733 likes

#24

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

7356 likes

#24

“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
― W.H. Auden

1807 likes

#26

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

45298 likes

#27

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: love

24158 likes

#27

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

9118 likes

#28

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

tags: philosophy

8337 likes

#29

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

1686 likes

#30

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
― William Shakespeare

5113 likes

#30

“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

6047 likes

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