Asma Brahim > Asma's Quotes

“A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“يصعب على المرء أن يتخيل لماذا وكيف يصبح الإنسان عاشقاً؟”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Insulted and Humiliated

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather like unrequited love, like a symptom of the hopelessness of trying to grasp what is boundless, or unite what cannot be joined; a reminder of how finite, how curtailed, our experience on earth must be”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

“The beautiful is hidden from the eyes of those who are not searching for the truth, for whom it is contra-indicated. But the profound lack of spirituality of those people who see art and condemn it, the fact that they are neither willing nor ready to consider the meaning and aim of their existence in any higher sense, is often masked by the vulgarly simplistic cry, 'I don't like it!', 'It's boring!' It is not a point that one can argue; but it like the utterance of a man born blind who is being told about a rainbow. He simply remains deaf to the pain undergone by the artist in order to share with others the truth he has reached.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

“ Rien n’est plus trompeur qu’une photo : on croit fixer un moment heureux pour l’éternité alors qu’on ne crée que de la nostalgie ”
― Guillaume Musso, Sauve-moi

“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
― Rumi

“الذاكرة لا تقتُل. تؤلم ألماً لا يطاق، ربما. و لكننا إذ نطيقه تتحول من دوامات تسحبنا إلى قاع الغرق إلى بحر نسبح فيه. نقطع المسافات. نحكمه و نملي إرادتنا عليه.”
― رضوى عاشور, الطنطورية

“عادة ما أشعر انى خفيفة قادرة على ان أطير وأنا مستقرة فى مقعد أقرأ رواية ممتعة. حين أشعر بنفسى ثقيلة أعرف أنى على مشارف نوبة جديدة من الاكتئاب”
― رضوى عاشور, فرج

“ و كلما حاول أن يغالب ما في قلبه ازداد ما في قلبه اتقاداً”
― رضوى عاشور, ثلاثية غرناطة

“أمسى البكاء مبتذلاً، ربما لأن الدموع صارت تستحي من نفسها، لا مجال.”
― رضوى عاشور, الطنطورية

“عند موت من نحب نكفِّنه. نلفه برحمة و نحفر في الأرض عميقاً. نبكي. نعرف أننا ندفنه لنمضي إلى مواصلة الحياة.

أي عاقل ينبش قبور أحبابه؟”
― رضوى عاشور, الطنطورية

“فيتأكد لي مع كل صباح أن فى هذه الحياة رغم كل شيء، ما يستحق الحياة”
― رضوى عاشور, الطنطورية

“لا يمكن أن يكون الحب أعمى لأنه هو الذي يجعلنا نبصر”
― رضوى عاشور, فرج

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez