Raghad > Raghad's Quotes

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
― Franz Kafka

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“تعريف الاكتئاب : أن يتوقف الزمن عن الحركة ، لتعش أنت في السجن الذي لا يراهُ الآخرون ، حياةً مؤبدة .”
― عمرو صبحي, يوميات كهل صغير السن

“أريدُكِ. أريد أن أكون بائع الخردوات الذي يتبادلُ معكِ حديثاً يوميًا عابرًا، أن أكونَ أغنيةً تائهةً تعرف الطريق لقلبك.”
― عمرو صبحي

“سنفترقُ كما يفترق رجلٌ وامرأة أقسما -مرارًا- على ألا يفترقا. سنعترفُُ -للمرةِ الأولى- بالوقتِ، والظلِ، والفناءِ، وسنخرجُ إلى الحياة الواسعة -التي تفتحُ أبوابها للجميع سوانا- لا نحمل في قلبينا سوى فرحتين منفيتين والكثيرَ من الرملِ الثقيل. سنمشي في اتجاه الأيامِ وستحملنا موجتان عائدتان من الغرقِ فقط لنتبادلَ هزَّ الرأسِِ ومصافحةَ الغرباءِ. سأستيقظُ ذات صباحٍ ولا شيء سيملأُ الفراغَ داخلي سوى المزيدِ منه، وأنتِ ستكدسينَ الخريفَ في باقةِ وردٍ تحملينها أينما كنتِ.”
― عمرو صبحي

“كلما آلمني القيدُ الذي استيقظتُ لأجده في يدي واستعصت علي أسئلة الحياة، أضعها في حقيبة سفرٍ أحملها على ظهري وأرحل.

وكلما مررت بمدينةٍ جديدة فقدتُ فيها طواعيةً جزءاً من روحي ونثرتُ فيها قطعةً من قلبي علّي أجد اكتمالاً في فنائي وأُنساً في غربتي، حتى إذا أوشكت بلوغ خريفي السادس والعشرين لم أجد ما أفقده من قلبي ولا ما أتنازل عنهُ من روحي سوى غربةٍ صمّاء، وصقيعٍ لا ينتهي.


كنتُ خاوياً تماماً كمطارٍ ناءٍ في بلدٍ غير معروفٍ يغازلُ مسافراً لا يجئ وطائرةً لا تهبطُ على أدراجه.”
― عمرو صبحي

“الحب هو طريقتنا للشعور بأن العالم يدورُ حولنا -بالأساس - وحين نفترق بهذا الشكل الباهت، لا ينفرطُ إيماننا بالحب فحسب، ولكن بجدوى اللون العسلي في عيني وبالفراشاتِ اللواتي ينفجرن داخلك كلما ابتسمتُ.”
― عمرو صبحي

“المأزق أننا - لاشعورياً ولا إرادياً - نبالغ في توقع ردود أفعال الآخرين بشكل غير منطقي، ننزل أنفسنا بمنزلة متضخمة، نعتقد أن لأفعالنا، كلماتنا، غيابنا، حضورنا تأثيراً مبالغاً فيه، رغم أنه لا شيء يطرأ على الكون”
― عمرو صبحي, يوميات كهل صغير السن

“To Learn is to create. Learning- whether it is programming, mathematics, art, music, poetry, biology, or chemistry- is all about breaking down walls and freeing the one thing that kept us alive: knowledge.

Knowledge expands freedom in all its forms. Knowledge breaks down walls. It liberates the oppressed. We are committed to knowledge. Knowledge as a hammer against classism, against sexism, against racism, against gender discrimination, against slavery, against bigotry, against war, against hatred. If there is darkness in the world, we will light it up.”
― Leopoldo Gout, Genius: The Game

“Anything can happen at anytime. Safety is not guaranteed. There's more to life than being alive.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“A photograph is a kind of time machine.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Be Brave. Remember, life is a gift.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
― Mary Leakey

“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
― Milan Kundera

“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”
― Milan Kundera

“There is no perfection only life”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I believe that there are people who think as I do, who have thought as I do, who will think as I do. There are those who will live, unconscious of me, but continuing my attitude, so to speak, as I continue, unknowingly, the similar attitude of those before me. I could write and write. All it takes is a motion of the hand in response to a brain impulse, trained from childhood to record in our own American brand of hieroglyphics the translations of external stimuli. How much of my brain is wilfully my own? How much is not a rubber stamp of what I have read and heard and lived? Sure, I make a sort of synthesis of what I come across, but that is all that differentiates me from another person? - - - That I have banged into and assimilated various things? That my environment and a chance combination of genes got me where I am?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“when my mother opens her mouth to have a conversation at dinner my father shoves the word hush between her lips and tells her to never speak with her mouth full this is how the women in my family learned to live with their mouths closed”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“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

“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.”
― Albert Einstein

“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
― Georges Bataille, Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille

“What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”
― Naguib Mahfouz, Sugar Street