R > R's Quotes

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“يا ألله!
كُنتُ بعيداً، وكَمْ مَشَيتُ،
وما اقْتَرَبْتُ”
― بسام حجار, سوف تحيا من بعدي

“قُربي جافٌ وضواحي قلبي موحشةٌ كهواءِ صفصاف، فارحلوا إذا كان الرحيل لايزال ممكناً.
شُفيتُ من حبّي لكم، وشُفيتُ من اليوم الذي يعود كلّ يوم. لم أترك أثراً، لذلك لن تهتدوا إليّ. محوتُ، وأنا أمشي، الطريقَ، وخطواتي ليست أبقى من نزواتٍ عابرة. لم أترك أثراً. شُفيتُ من خوفكم عليّ ومن خوفي عليكم وبتُّ الآن وحدي.

ارحلوا إذا كان الرحيل لايزال ممكناً. خذوا معكم أبيضَ الجدران وصمت النزهةِ في الرّواق. خذوا زوّار الضجّر والرغبات الكفيفة وفضّة الضحكِ الزائفة.
شُفيتُ من حبكم. أستطيع الآن أن أحيا. أن أجمع شمل العزلاتِ التي بددتموها وأسكنتم ظلالكم فيها.

أحببتُ. أحببتُ وكنتُ لا أعرفَ طريقَ النجاة، وكانت طريقُ النجاةِ بقربي فأخطأتها وأخذني القطار وحين عدت كانت يدُك وحدها وكنت وحدي وكنّا معاً، يدُك وخوفي من النجاة.”
― بسام حجار, سوف تحيا من بعدي

“الصلوات التي تبيسُ في الحلقِ
وتنكسرْ”
― بسام حجار, سوف تحيا من بعدي

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“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

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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

“The card for the Santa Teresa cybercafe was a deepred, so red that it was hard to read what was printed on it. On the back, in a lighter red, was a map that showed exactly where the cafe was located. He asked the receptionist to translate the name of the place. The clerk laughed and said it was called Fire, Walk With Me.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly -- that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion -- these are the two things that govern us.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Stories