Emelie > Emelie's Quotes

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates

“...people live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true... that is how they define reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts... their reality may all be an illusion.”
― Kishimoto Masashi Uchiha Itachi - chapter 385

“I don't understand what's going on, but i'll just pretend that I do.”
― Masashi Kishimoto

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Insulted and Humiliated

“I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.”
― Emile Zola

“When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
― Susan Faludi

“When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say."

"Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise."

"What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?"

"You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another."

In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that I have accessed my whole life.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out, even to the edge of doom.”
― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“...وعدتك أن لا أحبك..

ثم أمام القرار الكبير، جبنت

وعدتك أن لا أعود...

وعدت...

وأن لا أموت اشتياقاً

ومت

وعدت مراراً

وقررت أن أستقيل مراراً

ولا أتذكر أني استقلت...

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وعدت بأشياء أكبر مني..

فماذا غداً ستقول الجرائد عني؟

أكيدٌ.. ستكتب أني جننت..

أكيدٌ.. ستكتب أني انتحرت

وعدتك..

أن لا أكون ضعيفاً... وكنت..

وأن لا أقول بعينيك شعراً..

وقلت...

وعدت بأن لا ...

وأن لا..

وأن لا ...

وحين اكتشفت غبائي.. ضحكت...

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وعدتك..

أن لا أبالي بشعرك حين يمر أمامي

وحين تدفق كالليل فوق الرصيف..

صرخت..

وعدتك..

أن أتجاهل عينيك ، مهما دعاني الحنين

وحين رأيتهما تمطران نجوماً...

شهقت...

وعدتك..

أن لا أوجه أي رسالة حبٍ إليك..

ولكنني – رغم أنفي – كتبت

وعدتك..

أن لا أكون بأي مكانٍ تكونين فيه..

وحين عرفت بأنك مدعوةٌ للعشاء..

ذهبت..

وعدتك أن لا أحبك..

كيف؟

وأين؟

وفي أي يومٍ تراني وعدت؟

لقد كنت أكذب من شدة الصدق،

والحمد لله أني كذبت....

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وعدت..

بكل برودٍ.. وكل غباء

بإحراق كل الجسور ورائي

وقررت بالسر، قتل جميع النساء

وأعلنت حربي عليك.

وحين رفعت السلاح على ناهديك

انهزمت..

وحين رأيت يديك المسالمتين..

اختلجت..

وعدت بأن لا .. وأن لا .. وأن لا ..

وكانت جميع وعودي

دخاناً ، وبعثرته في الهواء.

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وغدتك..

أن لا أتلفن ليلاً إليك

وأن لا أفكر فيك، إذا تمرضين

وأن لا أخاف عليك

وأن لا أقدم ورداً...

وأن لا أبوس يديك..

وتلفنت ليلاً.. على الرغم مني..

وأرسلت ورداً.. على الرغم مني..

وبستك من بين عينيك، حتى شبعت

وعدت بأن لا.. وأن لا .. وأن لا..

وحين اكتشفت غبائي ضحكت...

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وعدت...

بذبحك خمسين مره..

وحين رأيت الدماء تغطي ثيابي

تأكدت أني الذي قد ذبحت..

فلا تأخذيني على محمل الجد..

مهما غضبت.. ومهما انفعلت..

ومهما اشتعلت.. ومهما انطفأت..

لقد كنت أكذب من شدة الصدق

والحمد لله أني كذبت...

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وعدتك.. أن أحسم الأمر فوراً..

وحين رأيت الدموع تهرهر من مقلتيك..

ارتبكت..

وحين رأيت الحقائب في الأرض،

أدركت أنك لا تقتلين بهذي السهوله

فأنت البلاد .. وأنت القبيله..

وأنت القصيدة قبل التكون،

أنت الدفاتر.. أنت المشاوير.. أنت الطفوله..

وأنت نشيد الأناشيد..

أنت المزامير..

أنت المضيئة..

أنت الرسوله...

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وعدت..

بإلغاء عينيك من دفتر الذكريات

ولم أك أعلم أني سألغي حياتي

ولم أك أعلم أنك..

- رغم الخلاف الصغير – أنا..

وأني أنت..

وعدتك أن لا أحبك...

- يا للحماقة -

ماذا بنفسي فعلت؟

لقد كنت أكذب من شدة الصدق،

والحمد لله أني كذبت...

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وعدتك..

أن لا أكون هنا بعد خمس دقائق..

ولكن.. إلى أين أذه”
― نزار قباني

“I choose to love you in silence…
For in silence I find no rejection,

I choose to love you in loneliness…
For in loneliness no one owns you but me,

I choose to adore you from a distance…
For distance will shield me from pain,

I choose to kiss you in the wind…
For the wind is gentler than my lips,

I choose to hold you in my dreams…
For in my dreams, you have no end.”
― Rumi

“The Beginning is lost;
the End stretches into eternity.
Don't bother with them, they're all irrelevant.
And since all is really nothing,
then nothing is truly everything.”
― Attar of Nishapur, The Conference of the Birds

“No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
― Milan Kundera