Alma > Alma's Quotes

“You were given a sharp, acute, uncomfortable grain..; yet in absence, in the most unlikely places, it would flower out, open, shed its scent, let you touch, taste, look about you, get the whole feel of it and understanding, after years of lying lost.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Everything nourishes what is strong already”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“But do not be cast down. Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.”
― Jane Austen

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“She had influenced him more than any person he had ever known. And always in this way coming before him without his wishing it, cool, ladylike, critical; or ravishing, romantic.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Never would she come first with anyone.”
― virginia woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Still, life had a way of adding day to day”
― virginia woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall”
― virginia woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“There seemed a gulf impassable between them.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“الأشياء الأجمل، تولد احتمالا... و ربما تبقى كذلك.”
― Ahlam Mosteghanemi, ذاكرة الجسد

“الفن هو كل ما يهزنا... و ليس بالضرورة كل ما نفهمه”
― Ahlam Mosteghanemi, ذاكرة الجسد

“..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Her resentment of such behaviour, her indignation at having been its dupe, for a short time made her feel only for herself.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“If her case was pitiable, his was hopeless. His imprudence had made her miserable for a while; but it seemed to have deprived himself of all chance of ever being otherwise.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Acknowledgements!
My thanks to Hollywood
When you showed me John Rambo
Stitching up his arm with no anaesthetic
And giving them “a war they won’t believe”
I knew then my calling, the job for me

Thanks also to the recruitment adverts
For showing me soldiers whizzing around on skis
And for sending sergeants to our school
To tell us of the laughs, the great food, the pay
The camaraderie

I am, dear taxpayer, forever in your debt
You paid for my all-inclusive pilgrimage
One year basking in the Garden of Eden
(I haven’t quite left yet)

Thanks to Mum and thanks to Dad
Fuck it,
Thanks to every parent
Flushing with pride for their brave young lads
Buying young siblings toy guns and toy tanks
Waiting at the airport
Waving their flags”
― Danny Martin

“Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow”
― Larry Michael Dredla

“لا تعد فحبي ليس مقعدً في حديقة عامة !تمضي عنه متى شئت .. وترجع إليه في أي وقت

لا تعتذر

فالرصاصة التي تطلق لا تسترد .. !!”
― غادة السمان