Wided > Wided's Quotes

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
― J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 2

“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days, —
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery”
― Yves Saint Laurent

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
― Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“بكوب الشراب المرصع باللازورد.... انتظرها
على بركة الماء حول المساء وعطر الكولونيا.... انتظرها
بصبر الحصان المعدّ لمنحدرات الجبال.... انتظرها
بذوق الأمير البديع الرفيع..... انتظرها
بسبع وسائد محشوة بالسحاب..... انتظرها
بنار البخور النسائي ملئ المكان.... انتظرها
برائحة الصندل الذكرية حول ظهور الخيول..... انتظرها
ولا تتعجل،فإن أقبلت بعد موعدها فانتظرها
وان أقبلت قبل موعدها فانتظرها
وان أقبلت عند موعدها فانتظرها
ولا تُجفِل الطير فوق جدائلها وانتظرها
لتجلس مرتاحة كالحديقة في أوج زينتها.... وانتظرها
لكي تتنفس هذا الهواء الغريب على قلبها.... وانتظرها
لترفع عن ساقها ثوبها غيمة غيمة.....و انتظرها
وخذها إلى شرفة لترى قمرا غارقا في الحليب وانتظرها
وقدم لها الماء قبل النبيذ ولا تتطلع إلى توأمي حجل نائمين على صدرها وانتظرها
ومُس على مهل يدها عندما تضع الكأس فوق الرخام كأنك تحمل عنها الندى وانتظرها
تحدث إليها كما يتحدث نايٌ إلى وترٍ خائف في الكمان كأنكما شاهدان على ما يُعِد غد لكما وانتظرها
إلى أن يقول لك الليل لم يبقى غيركما في الوجود، فخذها إلى موتك المشتهى وانتظرها”
― محمود درويش

“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.”
― Harold Bloom

“It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.”
― Harold Bloom

“The creator of Sir John Falstaff, of Hamlet, and of Rosalind also makes me wish I could be more myself. But that, as I argue throughout this book, is why we should read, and why we should read only the best of what has been written.”
― Harold Bloom, How to Read and Why

“...the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.”
― Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

“In this sense the Dionysian man resembles Hamlet: both have once looked truly into the essence of things, they have gained knowledge, and nausea inhibits action; for their action could not change anything in the eternal nature of things; they feel it to be ridiculous or humiliating that they should be asked to set right a world that is out of joint. Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion: that is the doctrine of Hamlet, not that cheap wisdom of Jack the Dreamer who reflects too much and, as it were, from an excess of possibilities does not get around to action. Not reflection, no--true knowledge, an insight into the horrible truth, outweighs any motive for action, both in Hamlet and in the Dionysian man.

Now no comfort avails any more; longing transcends a world after death, even the gods; existence is negated along with its glittering reflection in the gods or in an immortal beyond. Conscious of the truth he has once seen, man now sees everywhere only the horror or absurdity of existence; now he understands what is symbolic in Ophelia's fate; now he understands the wisdom of the sylvan god, Silenus: he is nauseated.

Here, when the danger to his will is greatest, art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live: these are the sublime as the artistic taming of the horrible, and the comic as the artistic discharge of the nausea of absurdity. The satyr chorus of the dithyramb is the saving deed of Greek art; faced with the intermediary world of these Dionysian companions, the feelings described here exhausted themselves.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy / The Case of Wagner

“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its thousand roads, to that great uncertainty external to everything. He is a prisoner in the midst of what is the freest, the openest of routes: bound fast at the infinite crossroads. He is the Passenger par excellence: that is, the prisoner of the passage. And the land he will come to is unknown—as is, once he disembarks, the land from which he comes. He has his truth and his homeland only in that fruitless expanse between two countries that cannot belong to him.”
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“لا تجزع من جرحك، وإلا فكيف للنور أن يتسلل إلى باطنك؟”
― جلال الدين الرومي

“لعل الأشياء البسيطة .. هي أكثر الأشياء تميزا
ولكن .. ليست كل عين ترى”
― جلال الدين الرومي

“ليس العاشق مسلما أو مسيحيا،
أو جزءا من أي عقيدة.
دين العشق لا مذهب له
لتؤمن به أو لا تؤمن.”
― جلال الدين الرومي

“ولتعلم ان العشق صامت تماما .. وانه ﻻ يوجد كلمات يمكنها وصفه”
― جلال الدين الرومي

“We move between two darknesses.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

“Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
― Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen

“People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus

“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”
― T.S. Eliot

“The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
The oldest hath borne most: we that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear