Abdalla Elabd > Abdalla's Quotes

“Tsukuru Tazaki had nowhere he had to go. This was like a running theme of his life. He had no place he had to go to, no place to come back to. He never did, and he didn’t now. The only place for him was where he was now.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“ما عييت الا أمام من سألني : من أنت!؟”
― جبران خليل جبران, رمل وزبد

“تُنسى، كأنك لم تكن
شخصاً ، ولانصاً..وتُنسى”
― محمود درويش

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“لا أخاف الموت ..أخاف أن أموت قبل أن أحيا”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“و كن من أنتَ حيث تكون
و احمل عبءَ قلبِكَ وحدهُ”
― محمود درويش

“Claire: Dear Claire, "What" and "If" are two words as non-threatening as words can be. But put them together side-by-side and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life: What if? What if? What if? I don't know how your story ended but if what you felt then was true love, then it's never too late. If it was true then, why wouldn't it be true now? You need only the courage to follow your heart. I don't know what a love like Juliet's feels like - love to leave loved ones for, love to cross oceans for but I'd like to believe if I ever were to feel it, that I will have the courage to seize it. And, Claire, if you didn't, I hope one day that you will. All my love, Juliet”
― Lise Friedman, Letters to Juliet: Celebrating Shakespeare's Greatest Heroine, the Magical City of Verona, and the Power of Love

“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“غرباء ..


و بكينا.. يوم غنّى الآخرون

و لجأنا للسماء

يوم أزرى بالسماء الآخرون

و لأنّا ضعفاء

و لأنّا غرباء

نحن نبكي و نصلي

يوم يلهو و يغنّي الآخرون



و حملنا.. جرحنا الدامي حملنا

و إلى أفق وراء الغيب يدعونا.. رحلنا

شرذماتٍ.. من يتامى

و طوينا في ضياعٍ قاتم..عاماً فعاما

و بقينا غرباء

و بكينا يوم غنى الآخرون



سنوات التيهِ في سيناءَ كانت أربعين

ثم عاد الآخرون

و رحلنا.. يوم عاد الآخرون

فإلى أين؟.. و حتامَ سنبقى تائهين

و سنبقى غرباء ؟”
― سميح القاسم

“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.”
― Kahlil Gibran, A Tear and a Smile

“Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“Do you not know, Asclepius, that Egypt is an image of heaven or, to be more precise, that everything governed and moved in heaven came down to Egypt and was transferred there? If truth were told, our land is the temple of the whole world.”
― Hermes Trismegistus, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius