Celia > Celia's Quotes

“You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?”
― Azar Nafisi

“Art is as useful as bread.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“We in ancient countries have our past—we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Sometimes I find myself sitting in one spot for hours, staring at nothing, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing, and most disturbingly, caring about nothing.”
― Mahbod Seraji

“Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking.”
― Mahbod Seraji, Rooftops of Tehran

“This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are.”
― Mahbod Seraji, Rooftops of Tehran

“أحبّك من لا أعرف متى ... وإلى لا أعرف متى ! ...”
― منى المرشود, أنت لي

“انّ شمساً تشرق وتغرب دون أن تريني إياها، هي ليست شمساً.. وإنّ قمراً يسهر في كبد السماء دون أن يعكس صورتها.. هو ليس قمراً
وإنّ يوماً يمر.. دون أن أطمئن عليها.. هو ليس محسوباً من أيام حياتي..”
― منى المرشود, أنت لي

“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“Just like a dream, you will always wake up when it becomes unbearable.”
― izikio

“The word "Impossible" is always conditional.”
― izikio

“Be cautious but never scared”
― izikio

“Intelligence is irrelevant”
― izikio

“Some people have it but the majority don't. I am talking about common sense here.”
― izikio

“All women are beautiful but beautiful women are rare.”
― izikio

“To be happy, change the code, not the screen.”
― izikio

“No one is clairvoyant enough to earn the right to label things good or bad.”
― izikio