Sara Buwaider > Sara's Quotes

“when god wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish”
― Paulo Coelho, The Valkyries

“شئ اسمه الحب وشئ اسمه: غريزة التملك وبين الحب وغريزة التملك خيط رفيع.. رفيع جداً.. إذا ما تبينته تكشف لك الفارق الكبير!”
― إحسان عبد القدوس, الخيط الرفيع

“لم يشعر أبداً بالفقر إلا اليوم.. إلا هذه الساعة.. عندما عرف أن أحلامه التي عذبته وأضنته وأنهكت قواه ، يستطيع غيره أن يحققها لأنه يستطيع أن يدفع ثمنها..”
― إحسان عبد القدوس, الخيط الرفيع

“إن إحساس البشر كعدسات آلات التصوير.. بعضها يفتح ويغلق باستمرار ليلتقط ما حوله من صور الجمال والقبح فتتأثر به النفس .. وبعضها يفتح ويغلق بالمحاولة وإلحاح الظروف المحيطة بالنفس.. وبعضها يظل مغلقاً أمداً طويلاً لا تتأثر خلاله النفس بصور الحياة ولا تلتقط منها شيئاً، ثم فجأة .. وبدافع غير إرادي.. وبلا سبب.. تحدث هزة نفسية نتيجة تفاعلات قديمة العهد، كما تحدث ثورة البراكين أو الهزات الأرضية، وفي هذه الحالة تتفتح عدسة الإحساس من تلقاء نفسها ، وتلتقط أول صورة تمر بها..”
― إحسان عبد القدوس, الخيط الرفيع

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior [to men] and always have been.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of mans heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“People don't help much.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“We need an assembly, not for cleverness, but for setting things straight.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“We have to face it at last. We're not all human.”
― William Golding, Darkness Visible

“We think we know."
"Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was.”
― William Golding, Darkness Visible

“What's in a book, is not what an author thought he put into it, it's what the reader get out of it.”
― William Golding

“Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
― A.P. Chekhov

“The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
― Anton Chekhov

“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