Mohammed Al-Soufi > Mohammed's Quotes

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

“أريدها لا تعرفني ولا أعرفها، لا من شيءٍ إلا لأنها تعرفني وأعرفها.. تتكلم ساكتةً وأرد عليها بسكوتي. صمتٌ ضائعٌ كالعبث ولكن له في القلبين عمل كلامٍ طويل”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, أوراق الورد

“ما دمت أرى هاتين العينين مفتوحتين، فلا سبيل للكرى إلى عينى.”
― يوهان فولفغانغ فون غوته, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“وَما هَجَروكَ مِن ذَنبٍ إِلَّيهِم وَلَكِن قَلَّ في الناسِ الوَفاءُ”
― العباس بن الأحنف, ديوان العباس بن الأحنف

“Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.
The pain is an anchor, mooring me here.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.”
― Socrates

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“And God said “Love Your Enemy,” and I obeyed him and loved myself.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

“It has become unecesssary for the police to ban books: their price alone bans them.”
― Eduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces

“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Broken Wings

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke