Asmahan K. > Asmahan's Quotes

“All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Creatures of the Darkness
BY VICKI JORDAN

It was world of vampires and demons, where innocence
was rare and so were the living. It was a world of darkness,
where light had been outlawed and nightfall had swallowed
us whole.

An epic war had been fought, and the creatures of the dark
had finally prevailed over the promoters of the light. Finally,
for the first time in existence, the people of the shadows could
come out and freely walk among one another in the rays of the
dying sun, which had once been used to shun them away.

A little girl, a child of the light, had survived the battle and
crawled out from under the ashes of the destruction. She looked
around at her altered world in dismay and confronted a vampire
about the changes, of which she did not approve.

“Why did you turn my world into a world of night, and make
wrong into a new form of right? How could you make all the light
disappear, and with it everyone I once loved so dear? Why are the
shadows now the new sun, and why is everything lost what you have
won?”
The vampire looked down at the little girl with amusement
and delight.

“Because, little girl, this is the real world you see, where there’s no
light to shine on false identities. We didn’t destroy the world just to scare;
we simply uncovered what was already there. What has come out was all the
darkness that was once hidden within, and you’ll soon meet the darkness
in you once my fangs pierce your skin.”

We are our own greatest fears…..”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.”
― Denis Johnson

“The dark and the light, they exist side by side,
Sometimes overlapping, one explaining the other.
The darkened path is as illuminated as the lightened,
Only the fear of the dark keeps us from seeing our way.”
― Raven Davies, Between Here & There

“Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.”
― May Sarton

“What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!” You’re flying right now. “I’m falling!” Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said.”
― George R.R. Martin

“I’m not a serpent, Father. I’m a crow.”
― Eli Easton, The Lion and the Crow

“I never realized how empty my life had really become until I had him in it. He did that to me. He said I wrecked him, but he completely destroyed me. Everything was fine when I was alone. When I didn’t have to feel or think or care about someone else. Sure I was sad and broken, but I was okay. Now, I’m anything but.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.”
― Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

“But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“She used to place her pretty arms about my neck, draw me to her, and laying her cheek to mine, murmur with her lips near my ear, “Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die—die, sweetly die—into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.”

And when she had spoken such a rhapsody, she would press me more closely in her trembling embrace, and her lips in soft kisses gently glow upon my cheek.
”
― Sheridan Le Fanu

“If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.”
― Marcus Sedgwick

“Walk with this tomorrow night. If nothing happens, then
don’t come back. Forget about us, this place, but if you feel the
Nightwalker in you awaken, then return to where you belong.
Return to me, and the streets will run red with blood.”
― Keith Kekic, Chloe of the Night

“I have learned one lesson in all this and I will share it knowing it will do no one any good. The lesson is this: "There are none more complicit in one's undoing than one's own heart".”
― James Pratt, The Woman in the Portrait

“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”
― Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka's The Castle

“Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.”
― Franz Kafka

“You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
― Paul McCartney

“الناسُ صنفانِ: مَوتى فِي حيَاتِهِم ** وآخرُون بِبَطنِ الأرضِ أحيَـــاءُ”
― أحمد شوقي

“جَلَسَت والخوفُ بعينيها

تتأمَّلُ فنجاني المقلوب

قالت:

يا ولدي.. لا تَحزَن

فالحُبُّ عَليكَ هوَ المكتوب

يا ولدي،

قد ماتَ شهيداً

من ماتَ على دينِ المحبوب

فنجانك دنيا مرعبةٌ

وحياتُكَ أسفارٌ وحروب..

ستُحِبُّ كثيراً يا ولدي..

وتموتُ كثيراً يا ولدي

وستعشقُ كُلَّ نساءِ الأرض..

وتَرجِعُ كالملكِ المغلوب

بحياتك يا ولدي امرأةٌ

عيناها، سبحانَ المعبود

فمُها مرسومٌ كالعنقود

ضحكتُها موسيقى و ورود

لكنَّ سماءكَ ممطرةٌ..

وطريقكَ مسدودٌ.. مسدود

فحبيبةُ قلبكَ.. يا ولدي

نائمةٌ في قصرٍ مرصود

والقصرُ كبيرٌ يا ولدي

وكلابٌ تحرسُهُ.. وجنود

وأميرةُ قلبكَ نائمةٌ..

من يدخُلُ حُجرتها مفقود..

من يطلبُ يَدَها..

من يَدنو من سورِ حديقتها.. مفقود

من حاولَ فكَّ ضفائرها..

يا ولدي..

مفقودٌ.. مفقود

بصَّرتُ.. ونجَّمت كثيراً

لكنّي.. لم أقرأ أبداً

فنجاناً يشبهُ فنجانك

لم أعرف أبداً يا ولدي..

أحزاناً تشبهُ أحزانك

مقدُورُكَ.. أن تمشي أبداً

في الحُبِّ .. على حدِّ الخنجر

وتَظلَّ وحيداً كالأصداف

وتظلَّ حزيناً كالصفصاف

مقدوركَ أن تمضي أبداً..

في بحرِ الحُبِّ بغيرِ قُلوع

وتُحبُّ ملايينَ المَرَّاتِ...

وترجعُ كالملكِ المخلوع..”
― نزار قباني, قصائد متوحشة

“أتعلم لو كنت بقربي الآن ؟
لكنت ضممتك إلي بكل ما أوتيت من عشق وشوق إليك ..
ووضعت رأسي على قلبك الذي لطالما أدمنت هواه حد الثمالة !
وسألتك بوجع هذه الأرض وماحوت :
بربك لمَ أبعدتني عنك ؟”
― نجلاء حسن, طرف غترته

“ولو إستطعت أن أعود بعجلة الزمان إلى الوراء ،
لما إخترتك لي عاشقاً !
ولأبقيتك عابراً غريباً يزور مدائني
دون أن يحدث بداخلي أي ضجيج !”
― نجلاء حسن, قلب صام عن هوى الرجال

“*مبادئ تالفة ، معتقدات بالية ، وجوه زائفة وعقليات يسودها الإنحطاط ! أنا غريبة في هذا العالم من بين ضجيج باهت مراوغ أنا لا أجدني !”
― نجلاء حسن, قلب صام عن هوى الرجال

“If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.”
― Stephen King, Night Shift

“While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, although you have probably already done so, go away and write down the four worst things you have done to a partner, even if - especially if - your partner doesn't know about them. Don't dress things up, or try to explain them; just write them down, in a list, in the plainest language possible. Finished? Ok, so who's the arsehole now?”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity