Jawad A. > Jawad's Quotes

“و إذا استوحش الإنسان تمثّل له الشىء الصغير فى صورة الكبيرة و ارتاب و تفرّق ذهنه- فرأى مالا يُرى و سمع مالا يُسمع و توهم على الشىء اليسير الحقير، أنه عظيمٌ جليل”
― عمرو بن بحر الجاحظ

“وَلَقَد ذَكَرتُكِ والرِّماحُ نَواهِلٌ - مِنّي وبِيضُ الهِندِ تَقطُرُ مِن دَمي
فَوَدَدتُ تَقبيلَ السُيوفِ لأَنَّها - لَمَعَت كَبارِقِ ثَغرِكِ المُتَبَسِّمِ”
― عَنتَرة بِن شَدّاد

“I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.”
― Avicenna, A Compendiun On The Soul

“Ce qui est pire c’est qu’on se demande comment le lendemain on trouvera assez de force pour continuer à faire ce qu’on a fait la veille et depuis déjà tellement trop longtemps, où on trouvera la force pour ces démarches imbéciles, ces mille projets qui n’aboutissent à rien, ces tentatives pour sortir de l’accablante nécessité, tentatives qui toujours avortent, et toutes pour aller se convaincre une fois de plus que le destin est insurmontable, qu’il faut retomber au bas de la muraille, chaque soir, sous l’angoisse de ce lendemain, toujours plus précaire, plus sordide. C’est l’âge aussi qui vient peut-être, le traître, et nous menace du pire. On n’a plus beaucoup de musique en soi pour faire danser la vie, voilà. Toute la jeunesse est allée mourir déjà au bout du monde dans le silence de vérité. Et où aller dehors, je vous le demande, dès qu’on a plus en soi la somme suffisante de délire ? La vérité, c’est une agonie qui n’en finit pas. La vérité de ce monde c’est la mort. Il faut choisir, mourir ou mentir.”
― Louis Ferdinand Celine

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“Nothing in the world is better suited to laziness than orthodoxy. If you gag your mouth, stop up your ears and put a blinder over your eyes, you can sleep peacefully.”
― Jacob Burckhardt

“The old thing where it always was, back again. As when a man, having found at last what he sought, a woman, for example, or a friend, loses it, or realises what it is. And yet it is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it. The glutton castaway, the drunkard in the desert, the lecher in prison, they are the happy ones. To hunger, thirst, lust, every day afresh and every day in vain, after the old prog, the old booze, the old whores, that's the nearest we'll ever get to felicity, the new porch and the very latest garden. I pass on the tip for what it is worth.”
― Samuel Beckett, Watt

“The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?”
― Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters

“Is there anything on earth which would have meaning
and would even change the course of events not only on
earth, but in other worlds?” I asked my teacher.
“There is,” my teacher answered me.
“Well, what is it?” I asked.
“It’s...” began my teacher and suddenly fell silent.
I stood and waited intently for his answer. But he was
silent.
And I stood and was silent.
And he was silent.
And I stood, silent.
And he was silent.
We’re both standing and silent.
Ho-la-la!
We’re both standing and silent.
Ho-le-le!
Yes, yes, we’re both standing and silent!
16-17 July 1937”
― Daniel Charms