Rozhan Sadeghi > Rozhan's Quotes

“I am here to live out loud.”
― Emila Zola

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

“The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”
― Yves Saint Laurent

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“ای زن
«براستی «برابریِ
جبرانِ
آنهمه ظلمی را می کند
که مرد با تو کرده است؟”
― شێرکۆ بێکەس

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“در من
فریادهاي درختی ست
خسته از میوه هاي تکراري”
― گروس عبدالملكیان, سطرها در تاریکی جا عوض می‌کنند

“To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end.”
― Charles Bukowski

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“آدمیزاد یک بار به دنیا می‌آید، اما در هر جدایی یک بار از نو می‌میرد. مرگ یگانه دردی است که درمانش را هم با خود دارد. چون وقتی سر برسد دیگر دردی نمی‌ماند تا درمانی بخواهد. اما جدایی: دردی‌ست غیر مردن، کان را دوا نباشد/ پس من چگونه گویم، کاین درد را دوا کن”
― Shahrokh Meskoob, سوگ مادر

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

“I spend roughly $80 per year watching bananas go brown.”
― G.H. Eckel

“It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Wisest is she who knows she does not know.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

“Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.”
― Romain Gary

“Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“In love we find out who we want to be, in war we find out who we are.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this.”
― Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude

“Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.”
― paul auster

“People truly engaged in life have messy houses.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there risking themselves to document it. Little sparks cause fires, too.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”
― J.D. Salinger