Omar Hussein > Omar's Quotes

“إننا لا ننتهى أبدا من صنع أنفسنا ؛
أشعر هذه الأيام بأننى أواجه نفسى مثل نحَّات يقف أمام صخرة
يجب أن يحذف منها كل ما هو غير جوهري”
― Juan José Millás

“كلّ واحد منا يختار جحيمه الخاصّ, ذلك الجحيم الذي يجد نفسه فيه أكثر راحة”
― Juan José Millás, هكذا كانت الوحدة

“He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it... he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.”
― Donald Barthelme

“Solara: You know, you say you've been walking for thirty years, right?

Eli: Right?

Solara: Have you ever thought that maybe you were lost?

Eli: Nope.

Solara: Well, how do you know that you're walking in the right direction?

Eli: I walk by faith, not by sight.

Solara: [sighs] What does that mean?

Eli: It means that you know something even if you don't know something.

Solara: That doesn't make any sense.

Eli: It doesn't have to make sense. It's faith, it's faith. It's the flower of light in the field of darkness that's giving me the strength to carry on. You understand?

Solara: Is that from your book?

Eli: No, it's, uh, Johnny Cash, Live at Folsom Prison.”
― Book of Eli Movie

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet