Ebrahim Elmoly > Ebrahim's Quotes

“تعيشُ مهموماً مغموماً حزيناً كئيباً ، وعندك الخبزُ الدافئُ ، والماءُ الباردُ ، والنومُ الهانئُ ، والعافيةُ الوارفةُ ، تتفكرُ في المفقودِ ولا تشكرُ الموجود”
― عائض القرني, لا تحزن

“الإكتشاف ليس أن تجد أرضاً جديدة .. وإنما أن ترى بعيون جديدة”
― أنيس منصور

“لا أحد فى هذه الدنيا يساوى أن تتعذب وحدك بسببه ومن أجله .. لا أحد صدقنى .. فليس لك إلا نفسك،، إلا جسمك، ألا عقلك ،إلا راحتك .. فأنت ضرورى جدا لنفسك .. أنت ضرورى لبقائك ولست ضروريا لأى أحد اخر .. فكما كانت الدنيا قبلك، فسوف تبقى بعدك .. وربما أحسن فاهرب من نفسك إلى نفسك .. نصيحه منى ولا علاج غير ذلك !”
― أنيس منصور, تعال نفكر معًا

“الغزلان تحب أن تموت عند أهلها، الصقور لا يهمها أين تموت.”
― غسان كنفاني

“!لك شيء في هذا العالم.. فقم”
― غسان كنفاني

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“ثمةَ فرق بين السبب الذي يجعل الناس تعتقد في شيِ ما , وبين السبب الذي يجعل هذا الشيء حقًا أو صوابًا.”
― عادل مصطفى, المغالطات المنطقية

“There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.”
― Ranata Suzuki

“وطن المرء ليس مكان ولادته و لكنه المكان الذي تنتهي فيه كل محاولاته للهروب”
― نجيب محفوظ

“I am from there. I am from here.
I am not there and I am not here.
I have two names, which meet and part,
and I have two languages.
I forget which of them I dream in.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“Everyone wants Kashmir but no one wants Kashmiris.
Aren't I a miracle? A seed that survived the slaughter & slaughters to come.
I think I believe in freedom I just don't know where it is.
I think I believe in home, I just don't know where to look.”
― Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

“Typical white man behavior, Ms. Mori said. Have you ever noticed how a white man can learn a few words of some Asian language and we just eat it up? He could ask for a glass of water and we’d treat him like Einstein. Sonny smiled and wrote that down, too. You’ve been here longer than we have, Ms. Mori, he said with some admiration. Have you noticed that when we Asians speak English, it better be nearly perfect or someone’s going to make fun of our accent? It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been here, Ms. Mori said. White people will always think we’re foreigners. But isn’t there another side to that? I said, my words a little slurred from the cognac in my bloodstream. If we speak perfect English, then Americans trust us. It makes it easier for them to think we’re one of them.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“She filled my head with dreams, telling me I could become anything I wanted. I believed her so much I thought I could be white.”
― Helie Lee, STILL LIFE WITH RICE

“Those who don't belong to any specific place can't, in fact, return anywhere. The concepts of exile and return imply a point of origin, a homeland. Without a homeland and without a true mother tongue, I wander the world, even at my desk. In the end I realise that it wasn't a true exile: far from it. I am exiled even from the definition of exile.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words

“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“At LeakyCon, a young lady asked me how I dealt with bullying. I wasn’t able to give her a very good answer, which troubles me. Well, there were lots of shouts of “It gets better” and “Stay strong” and “We love you”. But when I put myself back in time to when I was being bullied, none of those things would’ve helped me. Yes, absolutely it does get better. But when you are being physically and psychologically tortured, it is difficult to remove yourself from the pressingness of the moment at hand. Here’s how I dealt with bullying: I cried, I hated myself, I hated my life. I didn’t deal with it, I survived it, but I never dealt with it. So here are two tips from someone with lots of experience. 1: It’s not about you, it has nothing to do with you, it’s about the assholes doing it to you. 2: Your job is not to deal with it, your job is to survive it, which you CAN do because it WILL end. And then yes, it will get better.”
― Hank Green

“I know that I stopped thinking about extreme grief as the sole vehicle for great art when the grief started to take people with it. And I get it. The tortured artist is the artist that gets remembered for all time, particularly if they if they either perish or overcome. But the truth is that so many of us are stuck in the middle. So many of us begin tortured and end tortured, with only brief bursts of light in between, and I'd rather have average art and survival than miracles that come at the cost of someone's life.”
― Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

“تُرى : حين أفقأ عينيك
ثم أثبت جوهرتين مكانهما
هل ترى ؟
هي أشياءَ لا تُشترى.”
― أمل دنقل

“لا تصالح علي الدم .. حتي بدم!
لا تصالح! و لو قيل رأس برأس
أكل الرؤوس سواء؟
أقلب الغريب كقلب أخيك؟!
أعيناه عينا أخيك؟
و هل تساوي يد ... سيفها كان لك
بيد سيفها أثكلك؟”
― أمل دنقل, أمل دنقل: الأعمال الكاملة