Issaad Kacem > Issaad's Quotes

“Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret... I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: "I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein

“I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
― Albert Einstein

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Carl Sagan

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”
― Claude Levi-Strauss

“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“There is a place deep, deep inside every person that is hidden and hard to find. If things get bad enough and life gets too hard, though, some people will go to that place and never come back from it. Certainly, all outward appearances will suggest otherwise. They will look as they always did. They may even act somewhat like their old selves, but the trut is, the real truth is that they are hiding in this place deep inside where no one can touch or hurt them anymore.”
― Victoria Forester, The Girl Who Could Fly

“Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
― Charles Bukowski

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“خرجتُ اليوم للشّرفة على الشّباك جارتنا المسيحيّة تحيّيني
فرحتُ لأنّه إنسانٌ يحيّيني
لأنّ يداً صباحيّة .. يداً كمياهِ تشرينِ
تلــوّحُ لي تنــاديني
أيا ربّي متى نُشفى تُرى من عقدةِ الدّينِ ؟
أليسَ الدّين كلّ الدّين إنساناً يحيّيني
و يفتحُ لي ذراعيهِ و يحملُ غصنَ زيتونِ”
― نزار قباني, يوميات امرأة لا مبالية

“بلقيسُ ..
يا وَجَعِي ..
ويا وَجَعَ القصيدةِ حين تلمَسُهَا الأناملْ
هل يا تُرى .. من بعد شَعْرِكِ سوفَ ترتفعُ السنابلْ ؟”
― نزار قباني, قصيدة بلقيس

“في الجرائد العربية لا فرق فعلاً بين العنوان والجرح. كل صباح يستيقظ مجموعة من الصحفيين ليعلقوا آلامنا على الجدران فقط. لأن آخر العناوين الجميلة في تاريخنا كان قبل اختراع الصحافة”
― محمد حسن علوان

“Je sais pourtant que si on s'était embrassés, je serais reparti le cœur content, me foutant de la pluie ou du beau temps, puisque je comptais un peu pour toi. Je sais que ce baiser m'aurait accompagné partout et pendant longtemps, comme un souvenir radieux auquel me raccrocher dans les moments de solitude. Mais après tout, certains disent que les plus belles histoires d'amour sont celles qu'on n'a pas eu le temps de vivre. Peut-être alors que les baisers qu'on ne reçoit pas sont aussi les plus intenses.”
― Guillaume Musso, Que serais-je sans toi?