Ram Alsrougi > Ram's Quotes

“What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.
I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian nor Muslim,
I am not from east or west, not from land or sea,
not from the shafts of nature nor from the spheres of the firmament,
not of the earth, not of water, not of air, not of fire.
I am not from the highest heaven, not from this world,
not from existence, not from being.
I am not from India, not from China, not from Bulgar, not from Saqsin,
not from the realm of the two Iraqs, not from the land of Khurasan.
I am not from the world, not from beyond,
not from heaven and not from hell.
I am not from Adam, not from Eve, not from paradise and not from Ridwan.
My place is placeless, my trace is traceless,
no body, no soul, I am from the soul of souls.
I have chased out duality, lived the two worlds as one.
One I seek, one I know, one I see, one I call.
He is the first, he is the last, he is the outer, he is the inner.
Beyond He and He is I know no other.
I am drunk from the cup of love, the two worlds have escaped me.
I have no concern but carouse and rapture.
If one day in my life I spend a moment without you
from that hour and that time I would repent my life.
If one day I am given a moment in solitude with you
I will trample the two worlds underfoot and dance forever.
O Sun of Tabriz, I am so tipsy here in this world,
I have no tale to tell but tipsiness and rapture.”
― Jelalludin Rumi

“We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
― Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

“Trivia is mainstream. 'Nerd' is the new 'cool.”
― Ken Jennings

“I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”
― William Trevor

“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
― Edward Bulwer Lytton

“قُلْ لي – ولو كذباً – كلاماً ناعماً

قد كادً يقتُلُني بك التمثالُ

مازلتِ في فن المحبة .. طفلةً

بيني وبينك أبحر وجبالُ

لم تستطيعي ، بَعْدُ ، أن تَتَفهَّمي

أن الرجال جميعهم أطفالُ

إنِّي لأرفضُ أن أكونَ مهرجاً

قزماً .. على كلماته يحتالُ

فإذا وقفت أمام حسنك صامتاً

فالصمتُ في حَرَم الجمال جمالُ

كَلِماتُنا في الحُبِّ .. تقتلُ حُبَّنَا

إن الحروف تموت حين تقال..

قصص الهوى قد أفسدتك .. فكلها

غيبوبةُ .. وخُرافةٌ .. وخَيَالُ

الحب ليس روايةً شرقيةً

بختامها يتزوَّجُ الأبطالُ

لكنه الإبحار دون سفينةٍ

وشعورنا ان الوصول محال

هُوَ أن تَظَلَّ على الأصابع رِعْشَةٌ

وعلى الشفاهْ المطبقات سُؤالُ

هو جدول الأحزان في أعماقنا

تنمو كروم حوله .. وغلالُ..

هُوَ هذه الأزماتُ تسحقُنا معاً ..

فنموت نحن .. وتزهر الآمال

هُوَ أن نَثُورَ لأيِّ شيءٍ تافهٍ

هو يأسنا .. هو شكنا القتالُ

هو هذه الكف التي تغتالنا

ونُقَبِّلُ الكَفَّ التي تَغْتالُ

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لا تجرحي التمثال في إحساسهِ

فلكم بكى في صمته .. تمثالُ

قد يُطْلِعُ الحَجَرُ الصغيرُ براعماً

وتسيل منه جداولٌ وظلالُ

إني أُحِبُّكِ من خلال كآبتي

وجهاً كوجه الله ليس يطالُ

حسبي وحسبك .. أن تظلي دائماً

سِراً يُمزِّقني .. وليسَ يُقالُ ..”
― نزار قباني, الرسم بالكلمات

“على القارئ أن يقرأ ولا يزال يقرأ حتى يموت وهو يقرأ”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, من رسائل الرافعي

“The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.”
― Harlan Ellison, Stalking the Nightmare

“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
― Laura Amy Schlitz

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

“The days that make us happy make us wise.”
― John Masefield

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day…. I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.”
― Daphne Sheldrick

“Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

“Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“كوني ما شئتِ ، ليمسخ الإهمال صورتك ، ليقس الضنا على محياك ، بل فليشوهك الزمن الذي لا يرحم .. فأنتِ أنتِ عندي .. آخر علمي وذوقي ومنتهي تجربتي”
― يحيى حقي, قنديل أم هاشم

“أن نصوم عن ميلنا للأشياء .. أن نتجرد عنها وننخلع منها ونفطر على ذكر الله وحده”
― أحمد بهجت, مذكرات صائم

“صعد الإنسان إلى القمر .. ونزلنا نحن لقمر الدين”
― أحمد بهجت, مذكرات صائم

“Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
― Rosa Luxemburg

“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“القلب الذي ازدادت هشاشته ، كلما شعرت بوجع فيه أتمتم في أذنيه ..قاوم !! لا تتخلَ عنّي الآن .. فما يزال هناك متسع للحنين وللحياة”
― واسيني الأعرج

“Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.”
― Christian Bauman

“I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
― René Char

“I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

“You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.”
― Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, Vol. 1