Chahat > Chahat's Quotes

“who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?
Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache.
It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.
Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“For to stay, though the hours burn in the night, is to freeze and crystallize and be bound in a mould.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unclaimed.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world.”
― Nella Larsen, Passing

“Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

“Sometimes you don't know you're going to throw a grenade until you've already pulled the pin.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“In that first year after our mother died, my thoughts often veered toward disaster.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“This is the strange lesson of living in a pandemic: life can be tranquil in the face of death.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“If definitive proof emerges that we’re living in a simulation, the correct response to that news will be So what. A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“Former greats didn’t necessarily make great coaches.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“Think of your worst pre-match nerves. Except there’s no match. It’s just Tuesday morning. That’s how it feels to be me.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“When the match is over it’s like waking up from a beautiful dream.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“Such was the paradoxical nature of sibling relationships: they could tease her for the sappiness and spelling of her suicide notes while being terrified she’d write new ones.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“Everyone was embarrassed. She had never realized before her life was torn apart how awkward grief was, how inconvenient for everyone with whom the mourner came into contact. At first it was acknowledged and respected and deferred to. But after a while it got in the way—of conversation, of laughter, of normal life. Everyone wanted to put it behind them, to get on with things, and there you were, in the way, blocking the path,”
― Paula Hawkins, Into the Water

“You don't need to have it all. You only need to figure out how much is enough.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“She had known from a young age that everyone had darkness inside-some just controlled it better than others. Very few people believed that they were bad, and this was the scariest part. Human nature could be so hideous, but it persisted in this ugliness by insisting it was good.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“No one knew how he continued to do what he did, while simultaneously they wanted him to shut all signs of his grief away, place it in a file somewhere and tuck it in a drawer that no one would be asked to open again.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“One’s own idiocy is often a cheering thought.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

“We don’t have any good words for talking about death – they’re all too small.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Switch

“The pain of missing her is scorching, but I’ll live through it.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Switch

“You were healing. You’re still healing. You’ll maybe always be healing. And that’s OK. It’ll just be part of what makes you you.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Switch