Blackbutterfly > Blackbutterfly's Quotes

“i carry a message
that i can not read.
the words may be haunting ,
or tender or sweet.
though what it says,
i don not know.
i still carry it with me ,
where ever i go.”
― Carolee Dean

“When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.”
― Stephanie Meyer, Twilight

“ لا فائدة من الصراخ في أمة صماء .. ولا جدوي من الاشارة في أمة لا تري ”
― محمد صادق, بضع ساعات في يوم ما

“This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary. For example, in your case you always forgot who you are and how much you're loved. So what I do for you as your friend is remind you who you are and tell you how much I love you. And this isn't any kind of burden for me, because I love who you are very much. Every time I remind you, I get to remember with you, which is my pleasure.”
― James Lecesne

“You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

“So you keep your ocean, I'll take the Lake.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“مشاركتى فى الظلم ولو بالمشاهدة والصمت تثقل على نفسى سواء أأدركت هذا أم لا، والطريقة الوحيدة أمامى للتعامل معه هى ارتداء دروع من الصلابة أو عدم الاهتمام أو التعود، وكلها دروع تأكل إنسانيتى تدريجيا، وسينتهى الأمر بأن تدمّرها تماما وتحلّ محلها، فلا يتبقى لى سوى هذه الدروع.”
― عزالدين شكري فشير, باب الخروج: رسالة علي المفعمة ببهجة غير متوقعة

“ناضب كبئر منسية منذ قرون.
فشل زواجك.
ماتت قصة حبك.
جفت قريحتك.
تركت وظيفتك.
تبخرت مدخراتك.
شاب شعرك.
الرفاق يعزونك على وفاتك الأليمة.
لكنك ما زلت طفلا لا يأبى الاعتراف بأنها النهاية”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, السنجة

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
― David Hockney

“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
― Raymond Carver

“I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.”
― Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“رغبة عارمة فى البكاء تستبد بك ولا تعرف لها سبباً.. الألم الشخصى العبقرى الذى تكفى لمسة كى تجعله ينفجر، وانفجاره يبلل المناديل دائماً ..”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, الآن نفتح الصندوق 1

“Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.”
― Jim Butcher, Ghost Story

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

“I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
― Mary Leakey

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

“Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.”
― Jennifer Donnelly

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce