Samar Abdel Jaber > Samar's Quotes

“لا تلومونا حين نُفرط في حزننا إلى هذه الدرجة. نحنُ في الحقيقة نريد أن نفرغه كله، ربما نعثر قبل الموت على ضحكة مختبئة في أعماقنا.”
― عماد أبو صالح, كلب ينبح ليقتل الوقت

“يا جيل
مالهوش آيات ظاهرة
و جيت الدنيا فِـ مـُـظاهرة
بتهتف
وانت سامعها
و تضحك
و الهتاف بيبوظ
يشدّه الناس قصاد الناس
يغنوا و يصرخوا عنك
وصوتك
في الهوا منبوذ
تروّح
تفتح الشباك
تجرّب صوتك الرايح
تغنيلك _ معاك _ فيروز
يقرّب وشها الهادي
وفيه
تتخيل العَدْرا
أغانيها,
صلاة حاضرة
ولو جايز حرام
بـِـتــْجوز
يا جيل خايف
تموت فيروز..
فتعرف
يـُـتم مش هيّن
دا لما كنت مش عارف
تقول
تسمعها , فتبيّن
لنفسك
قد إيه محظوظ
تكون حافظ غنا فيروز
حمام واقف على روحك
شجر فردوسي
فيك مغروز”
― Mahmoud Ezzat

“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
― Epicurus

“[A] right understanding that death is nothing
to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to it
an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for
immortality. For there is nothing terrible in life for the man who has
truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living.”
― Epicurus

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

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

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon

“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
― John Lennon

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”
― Amy Tan

“تعلمت أن القراءة فعل خشوع. فأنت حين تنهي قراءة كتاب لا تعود الشخص الذي كنته قبل القراءة”
― أمبرتو أكابال

“لو تعلمين
: ما حالُ قلبي
حتى النجمات
تبدو لي أزهاراً مريضة”
― أمبرتو أكابال, طردت اسمك من بالي

“،طائرٌ أنا
أحلِّق فيَّ”
― أمبرتو أكابال, طردت اسمك من بالي

“Some people see things that are and ask, Why?
Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?
Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.”
― George Carlin

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
― George Carlin

“Pride should be reserved for something you achieve or obtain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn't a skill... it's a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn't say I'm proud to be 5'11"; I'm proud to have a pre-disposition for colon cancer.”
― George Carlin

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
― Matsuo Bashō

“Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.”
― Basho

“When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”
― Bashō

“Summer grasses,
All that remains
Of soldiers' dreams”
― Bashō

“Temple of Suma—
hearing the unblown flute
in the deep shade of trees

sumadera ya / fukanu fue kiku / koshitayami”
― Bashō Matsuo, Bashō's Haiku: Selected Poems

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light‐years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
― Carl Sagan