Hamid > Hamid's Quotes

“Oderint dum metuant.
"Let them hate me, as long as they fear me.”
― Caligula

“I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Being human was the best he could do. Without man there would be no evil. But there was also no good, nothing moral built over the world of fact. Humans were responsible for it all.”
― Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn

“...آیا کسی می توانست بفهمد که دوست داشتن او چه لذتی دارد و آدم را به چه ابدیتی نزدیک می کند؟ آدم پر می شود. جوری که نخواهد به چیزی دیگر فکر کند. نخواهد دلش برای آدم دیگری بلرزد و هیچگاه دچار تردید نشود.”
― سمفونی مردگان - عباس معروفی

“-...یک جوان به سن و سال من و تو چند ساعت باید بخوابد؟
-...یک آدم به سن و سال من و تو چند ساعت باید بخواند؟”
― عباس معروفی, سمفونی مردگان

“هرگز کسی اینگونه فجیع به کشتن خود بر نخواست که من به زندگی نشستم

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― شاملو

“Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.”
― Albert Camus

“The act of love, for instance, is a confession.”
― Albert Camus

“There are no signposts in the desert,
caravans are guided by the stars.
In the darkness of despair,
hope is the only light.
But in the garden of your life,
my dear, never hope that
a weeping willow will give you dates.”
― Rumi

“In each of us is a hidden child. It’s nice when the child wakes up because the world of imagination is a tremendous place to play.”
― Stjepan Varesevac Cobets, Magic Clogs

“When I write a book I first have an idea, a blank piece of paper in front of me and I have no idea where it will take me when I start writing. Sometimes I surprise myself where my writing takes me.”
― Stjepan Varesevac Cobets