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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“تلك كانت أول مرة أموت..
ألقيت ظهري على الرمال ورمقت الشفق ينحسر .. حل السلام .. لا كره .. لا حب .. لا شيء .. فقط الخواء والفناء والعدم .. ثم سقط الليل فوقي في لحظة.”
― أحمد مراد, الفيل الأزرق

“One day [Rabbi Spear] talked about his theory of happiness. He proposed that human feelings respond only to contrast and change, not to constancy, just as eyesight responds to contrasts of light and dark and to movement. The rabbi speculated that if emotions are similar to eyesight and other senses, then perhaps emotions were developed by nature as a survival mechanism.”
― Alan Lightman, Good Benito

“Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.”
― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

“والكلمة قد تفعل في الإنسان ما لا تفعله الأدوية القوية , فهي حياة خالدة لا تفنى بموت قائلها.”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“كيف تبصر الحب في عين امرأة تعرف أنّك لن تحميها ؟”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, السنجة

“الأشياء مثل بقية الأشياء .. لا يمتاز منها
إلا ما نُميِّزه نحنُ بما نكسوه به
من وَهْمٍ وظنٍ واعتقاد.”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

“سؤال:
هل تعرف ما الفرق بين حبيبة سابقة لم تظفر بها وحبيبة أصبحت زوجتك؟
الإجابة:
لا فرق. إنه عُشب الضفة المقابلة الذي سيبدو "دائمًا وأبدًا" أكثر اخضرارًا طالما لم تطأه قدماك.”
― أحمد مراد, الفيل الأزرق

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
― Paulo Coelho

“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“لا يكفيك أن تنساها .. يجب كذلك أن تنسى أنك نسيتها !”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“حمدا لله .. انى مازلت جميلة ..بل لا اظننى
كنت اجمل مما انا الان، لا تطنوا بقولى غرورا !!.او ظنوا كما شئتم !! مغرورة او غير مغرورة.. لقد كنت ارى نفسي جميلة .. وكان هو يرانى اجمل . ماذا يهم بعد ذلك اذا كنت فعلا غير جميلة ؟؟!”
― يوسف السباعي, إني راحلة

“الخوف لا يمنع من الموت و لكنه يمنع من الحياة.”
― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا

“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
― George Bernard Shaw

“A happy familiy is but an earlier heaven.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

“He had a problem, like any other problem. The problem just hadn't been well posed. The problem was: Should he leave Penny or not?”
― Alan Lightman, Good Benito

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“أمسى البكاء مبتذلاً، ربما لأن الدموع صارت تستحي من نفسها، لا مجال.”
― رضوى عاشور, الطنطورية

“الأرواح تتآلف أو تتنافر هكذا لأسباب لا أحد منا يعلمها”
― رضوى عاشور, الطنطورية

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
― Joss Whedon

“و لكن كوابيس النوم تقتصر في الغالب على بضع صور صامتة و خوف المطارَد أو الشعور بالاختناق. الكوابيس وديعة و طيبة و لها حدود.”
― رضوى عاشور, الطنطورية

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“loneliness.
By all the saints, he was mad. He should be filled with hatred and thoughts of revenge. Vaden was his enemy and that time of friendship has gone. When would he learn to give up those memories and realize Vaden meant what he said?
Tonight. From no on he would regard Vaden as any other enemy. To do anything else would endanger Dundragon and Thea. He must close away this sense of loss and behave with sanity.
The entire world was a barren place. To accept that Vaden was his enemy did not make the loneliness more desolate.
It only seemed to make it weigh heavier, much heavier,”
― Iris Johansen

“The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.”
― Steve Hall