Mutasim Battah > Mutasim's Quotes

“Я помню чудное мгновенье:
Передо мной явилась ты,
Как мимолётное виденье,
Как гений чистой красоты...

I still recall the wondrous moment
When you appeared before my eyes,
Just like a fleeting apparition,
Just like pure beauty's distillation...”
― Pushkin, Alexander

“If there is anything certain in life, it is this. Time doesn't always heal. Not really. I know they say it does, but that is not true. What time does is to trick you into believing that you have healed, that the hurt of a great loss has lessened. But a single word, a note of a song, a fragrance, a knife point of dawn light across an empty room, any one of these things will take you back to that one moment you have never truly forgotten. These small things are the agents of memory. They are the sharp needle points piercing the living fabric of your life.

Life, my children, isn't linear where the heart is concerned. It is filled with invisible threads that reach out from your past and into your future. These threads connect every second we have lived and breathed. As your own lives move forward and as the decades pass, the more of these threads are cast. Your task is to weave them into a tapestry, one that tells the story of the time we shared.”
― Stephen Lee

“My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

“Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.”
― Aleksander Pushkin

“But whom to love?
To trust and treasure?
Who won’t betray us in the end?
And who’ll be kind enough to measure
Our words and deeds as we intend?”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

“The wondrous moment of our meeting...
Still I remember you appear
Before me like a vision fleeting,
A beauty's angel pure and clear.

In hopeless ennui surrounding
The worldly bustle, to my ear
For long your tender voice kept sounding,
For long in dreams came features dear.

Time passed. Unruly storms confounded
Old dreams, and I from year to year
Forgot how tender you had sounded,
Your heavenly features once so dear.

My backwoods days dragged slow and quiet --
Dull fence around, dark vault above --
Devoid of God and uninspired,
Devoid of tears, of fire, of love.

Sleep from my soul began retreating,
And here you once again appear
Before me like a vision fleeting,
A beauty's angel pure and clear.

In ecstasy my heart is beating,
Old joys for it anew revive;
Inspired and God-filled, it is greeting
The fire, and tears, and love alive.”
― Alexander Pushkin

“Since I met you, I've felt abandoned without your nearness; your nearness is all I ever dream of, the only thing.”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other”
― Anton Chekhov

“Even in Siberia there is happiness.”
― Anton Chekhov

“لأن الحرب تُظهر أسوأ مافي الإنسان دون شك، لكنها تُظهر أفضل ماعنده أيضًا.”
― Erri De Luca, Il giorno prima della felicità

“أتوق لرؤيتك حتى ولو بأحلامي
أشتاق لرؤيتك حتى من بعيد
حتى لو كنت في أعمق المحيطات
سألقي بنفسي في أحضان المياه
مستسلمة لقدري”
― Amany Al-Hallaq, Between Your Ribs: Love Poems

“شهادة جامعيّة, وأربعة كتب، ومئات المقالات، وما زلت أخطئ في القراءة .. تكتبين لي "صباح الخير" وأقرؤها "أحبك”
― محمود درويش

“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“المعذرة إن بكّرتُ في الحضور، ولكني لم أجد ما يشغلني عن الشوق ..”
― ليو تولستوي, Anna Karenina

“أعترف بأني تعبت من طول الحلم الذي يعيدني إلى أوله وإلى آخري دون أن نلتقي في أي صباح .”
― محمود درويش, أثر الفراشة