Sadaf > Sadaf's Quotes

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

“I felt myself still reliving a past which was no longer anything more than the history of another person;”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

“God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’

Which of us was right, boss?”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“باید مواظب بود.من شبها شعر میخوانم.هنوز ننوشته ام.خواهم نوشت.من نقاشی می کنم.شعر میخوانم و یکتایی را می بینم.و گاه در خانه غذا می پزم و ظرف میشویم و انگشت خودم را می برم.آدم چه دیر می فهمد.من چه دیر فهمیدم که انسان یعنی عجالتا.ایران مادرهای خوب دارد و غذاهای خوشمزه و روشنفکران بد و دشتهای دلپذیر.”
― پریدخت سپهری, هنوز در سفرم...

“نقاشی من فساد میوه را از خود میراند.ثقل سنگ را میگرفت.شاخه ی نقاشی من دستخوش آفت نبود.آدم نقاشی من عطسه نمیکرد.راستی چه دیر به ارزش نقصان پی بردم.و اعتبار فساد را دریافتم.”
― پریدخت سپهری, هنوز در سفرم...

“من از خیلی چیز ها می ترسیدم : از مادیان سپید پدر بزرگ ، از مدیر مدرسه ، از نزدیک شدن وقت نماز ، از قیافه عبوس شنبه. چقدر از شنبه ها بیزار بودم . خوشبختی من از صبح پنجشنبه آغاز می شد . عصر پنجشنبه تکه ای از بهشت بود . شب که می شد در دور ترین خواب هایم طعم صبح جمعه را می چشیدم .”
― سهراب سپهری, هنوز در سفرم...

“Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.”
― Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi

“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“How I long to see
among dawn flowers,
the face of God.”
― Basho, Haiku

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“اگر تنها ترین تنهاها شوم ، باز خدا هست ، او جانشین همه نداشتن هاست
نفرین و آفرین ها بی ثمر است
اگر تمامی خلق گرگهای هار شوند و از آسمان ، هول وکینه بر سرم بارد تو مهربان جاودان آسیب ناپذیر من هستی
ای پناهگاه ابدی! تو می توانی جانشین همه بی پناهی ها شوی”
― Dr. Ali Shariati

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“به کجا چنین شتابان؟
گون از نسیم پرسید
- دل من گرفته زین جا
هوس سفر نداری
ز غبار این بیابان؟
- همه آرزویم اما
چه کنم که بسته پایم.
به کجا چنین شتابان؟
- به هر آن کجا که باشد
به جز این سرا، سرایم
- سفرت به خیر اما تو و دوستی، خدا را
چو از این کویر وحشت به سلامتی گذشتی
به شکوفه‌ها، به باران
برسان سلام ما را”
― محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی, در کوچه‌باغهای نشابور