Omar > Omar's Quotes

“أظمتني الدنيا فلما جئتها مستسقياً .. مطرت عليا مصائبا”
― أبو الطيب المتنبي

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
― Helen Keller

“The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.”
― Helen Keller

“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
― Helen Keller

“I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”
― Emil Cioran

“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.”
― Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay

“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
― Emil Cioran

“If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.”
― Émile Michel Cioran

“We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”
― Aristotle

“To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much
Just remember two main rules for the beginning:
You better starve, than eat whatever
And better be alone, than with whoever.”
― Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat

“When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.”
― Omar Khayyam

“وأسعد الخلق قليل الفضول
من يهجر الناس ويرضى القليل”
― Omar Khayyám, رباعيات خيام

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“How unlucky I am that this should happen to me. But not at all. Perhaps, say how lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened, and I am not afraid of what is about to happen. For the same blow might have stricken anyone, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation and complaint.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.”
― Fiona Apple

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
― Spencer Johnson

“If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“They steal your bread, then give you a crumb of it…
Then they demand you to thank them for their generosity…
O their audacity!”
― Ghassan Kanafani

“Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”
― Emil Cioran

“أشعر أنني منفصل تماما عن كل البلدان وعن كل المجموعات. أنا متشرد
ميتافيزيقي

I feel completely detached from any country, any group.
I am a metaphysically displaced person”
― Emil Cioran

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

“Success is getting what you want..
Happiness is wanting what you get.”
― Dale Carnegie

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
― William James

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
― William James

“To change one’s life:
1. Start immediately.
2. Do it flamboyantly.
3. No exceptions.”
― William James

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi