Ali AbdulKarim > Ali's Quotes

“I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more. ”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“تَغَرَّبْ عَنِ الأَوْطَانِ فِيْ طَلَبِ العُلَى =وسافِرْ ففي الأَسْفَارِ خَمْسُ فَوَائِـدِ

تَفَرُّجُ هَـمٍّ، واكتِسَـابُ مَعِيْشَـةٍ =وَعِلْمٌ ، وآدابٌ، وصُحْبَـةُ مَاجِـدِ

فإن قيلَ في الأَسفـارِ ذُلٌّ ومِحْنَـةٌ =وَقَطْعُ الفيافي وارتكـاب الشَّدائِـدِ

فَمَوْتُ الفتـى خيْـرٌ له مِنْ قِيامِـهِ =بِدَارِ هَـوَانٍ بيـن واشٍ وَحَاسِـدِ”
― علي بن أبي طالب

“سأصبر حتى يعجز الصبر عن صبري
سأصبر حتى ينظر الرحمن في أمري
سأصبر حتى يعلم الصبر
أني صبرت على شئٍ أمرّ من الصبر”
― علي بن أبي طالب

“Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow and endless drizzle.

You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and is broken.

Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again.

Whenever it rains you will think of her. ”
― Neil Gaiman

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
― James Joyce

“ليس المهم أن يموت الانسان قبل أن يحقق فكرته النبيلة، بل المهم أن يجد لنفسه فكرة نبيلة قبل أن يموت”
― غسان كنفاني

“I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done in life, any choice that I’ve made. But I’m consumed with regret for the things I didn’t do, the choices I didn’t make, the things I didn’t say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. “What if…” “If only…” “I wonder what would have…” You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“لكلِّ اجـــتماعٍ مــن خـــليلين فرقـــةٌ .. وكـــلُّ الـــذي دونَ الـــفـــراقِ قليلُ
وإن افـــتقـــادي فـــاطماً بـــعد أحـمدٍ .. دلــــيـــلٌ عـــلـــى ألا يـــدومَ خـليلُ
وكـــيف هناك العيشُ من بـعد فقدِهم .. لـــعـــمـــرك شـــيءٌ مـــا إليه سـبيلُ
يريـــدُ الـــفتى ألا يـــموتَ حـبـيـبُهُ .. ولـــيـــس إلـــى مـــا يـــبتغيهِ ســـبيلُ
ولـــيس جـــلـــيلاً رِزْءُ مـــالٍ وفـَـقْدُهُ .. ولـــكـــنَّ رِزْءَ الأكـــرمـــين جـــلـيلُ
لذلك جـــنـبي لا يـــؤاتـــيـــه مضـجعٌ .. وفي القـــلب من حرِّ الـــفراق غليلُ”
― علي بن أبي طالب

“The very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and my chains fell off.”
― James Baldwin

“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”
― James Baldwin

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin