NORAH . > NORAH's Quotes

“We are only as blind as we want to be.”
― Maya Angelou

“I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”
― Malcolm X

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

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

“When you focus on someone's disability you'll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they are, you subconsciously learn to love yourself unconditionally.”
― Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

“Often people ask, "How can you say you're blessed to have a son with Down syndrome?" My outlook on life has forever changed. I see my own challenges differently. He's always showing me that life is so much bigger than self.”
― Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

“طالما سألت نفسى هل الذكرى السعيدة شئ مفرح أم محزن، مفرحة لأنها تذكًرك بمتعة أم محزنة؛لأنك لن تستطيع ان تعيشها الاّن لاختلاف كل شئ، لم يعد هناك نفس البشر، لم يعد هناك نفس الظروف، لم تعد أنت نفسك، انت.”
― عمرو سلامة, رسائل ترد للمرسل

“كونى مثلى ولكن لا تكونى أنا ..لنكن متشابهين كما يتشابه ماء البكاء و ماء المطر إن رأيت أحدهما لن تقدر أن تميز إن كان هدية السماء أم حزن العيون”
― عمرو سلامة, رسائل ترد للمرسل

“طالما سألت نفسي هل الذكرى السعيدة شيء مفرح أم محزن، مفرحة لأنها تذكِّرك بمتعة أم محزنة؛ لأنك لن تستطيع أن تعيشها الآن لاختلاف كل شيء، لم يعد هناك نفس البشر، لم يعد هناك نفس الظروف، لم تعد أنت نفسك، أنت.”
― عمرو سلامة, رسائل ترد للمرسل

“و أنا شايف إن نصايح الناس خصوصاً المقربين ليك مش على طول مفيدة, لإن الناس بتنصحك عشان بتحبك, بيحاولوا يخلوك تتجنب الفشل, و الآلام المترتبة على هذا الفشل, و مش عارفين إن ده في معظم الوقت بيوديك للفشل بعينه بأسرع طريق... الخط المستقيم!”
― عمرو سلامة, شاب كشك في رحلة البحث عن الجادون

“وبلاش نعمل من الأراء مسلمات ، مش لمجرد إن الأغلبية ماشية ورا الرأي ده إنه قانون ، الأغلبية في وقت من الأوقات كانت موافقة إن الأرض مسطحة والأغلبية الألمانية كانت مقتنعة إن هتلر هو منقذ البشرية ، وأغبية المصريين أهلاوية!”
― عمرو سلامة, شاب كشك في رحلة البحث عن الجادون

“مل تبصش على نص الكوباية الفاضى ، ولا حتى المليان ، دور على شوية ميه كمان ، عشان تملاها”
― عمرو سلامة, شاب كشك في رحلة البحث عن الجادون

“The name of the author is the first to go
followed obediently by the title, the plot,
the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel
which suddenly becomes one you have never read,
never even heard of,

as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor
decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain,
to a little fishing village where there are no phones.

Long ago you kissed the names of the nine Muses goodbye
and watched the quadratic equation pack its bag,
and even now as you memorize the order of the planets,

something else is slipping away, a state flower perhaps,
the address of an uncle, the capital of Paraguay.

Whatever it is you are struggling to remember,
it is not poised on the tip of your tongue,
not even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen.

It has floated away down a dark mythological river
whose name begins with an L as far as you can recall,
well on your own way to oblivion where you will join those
who have even forgotten how to swim and how to ride a bicycle.

No wonder you rise in the middle of the night
to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war.
No wonder the moon in the window seems to have drifted
out of a love poem that you used to know by heart.”
― Billy Collins

“You and everyone you know are going to be dead soon. And in the short amount of time between here and there, you have a limited amount of fucks to give. Very few, in fact. And if you go around giving a fuck about everything and everyone without conscious thought or choice—well, then you’re going to get fucked.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“انهم يغيرون قمصانهم يومياً, الا انهم لا يغيرون من مفهوم أنفسهم بالنسبة اليهم شيئاً”
― كولن ولسون, The Outsider