Faris Alsaleh > Faris's Quotes

“ما أكثر ما عزوت لنفسي جرائم لم أقترفها قط ، كي لا أحرج الغير فى مجلسي”
― جبران خليل جبران, رمل وزبد

“For good people, religion means peace with everybody, for bad guys a tribe to protect”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was sacked from his village and stoned at Ta'if, but he quietly left for Medina.
If both of these men, beaten, and bloodied—the incarnations of their respective faiths—asked God to forgive their aggressors, then who were today's religious leaders to advocate holy war?”
― Eliza Griswold

“If I were a Palestinian at the right age, I would have joined one of the terrorist organizations at a certain stage.”
― Ehud Barak

“—It is hard to die. Harder to live.”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“—No. He is asking us if we can truly bear hearing the story. Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“If I should die,” said I to myself, “I have left no immortal work behind me—nothing to make my friends proud of my memory—but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember’d.”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“In the end, it doesn’t matter a damn bit. We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of language and then trying to make a minuet out of all that chaotic hurt. It doesn’t matter a damn bit. We’re no avatars, no sons of god or man. We’re only us, scribbling our conceits alone, reading alone, and dying alone.”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“Have you ever noticed how on a trip—even a very long one—it is often the first week or so that stands out most clearly in your memory? Perhaps it is the enhanced perception that voyages bring, or perhaps it is an effect of orientation response on the senses, or perhaps it is simply that even the charm of newness soon wears off, but it has been my experience that the first days in a new place, or seeing new people, often set the tone for the rest of the trip. Or in this case, the rest of my life.”
― Dan Simmons, Endymion