A.G. Stranger > A.G.'s Quotes

“No form of art is greater than the art of living.”
― A.G. STRANGER

“You do not listen to music.
Music listens to you.”
― A.G. STRANGER

“Sometimes, dreaming is in and of itself an act of rebellion.”
― A.G. STRANGER

“Poetry is self-disclosure at its utmost sincerity.”
― A.G. STRANGER

“Don't listen to people. They're just people.”
― A.G. STRANGER

“It was insane how his love made her relish her youth more than ever. But then again that day she felt very old for the same reason.”
― A.G. STRANGER

“Death is the truth that melts frozen hearts.”
― A.G. STRANGER

“Somtimes he'd smile. Other times, his eyes would tear-up. And quite often, he'd do both in that order. Memories should not be considered as mere creatures of the past for sometimes, they affect our present even more than our present itself.”
― A.G. STRANGER

“Let's break each others' hearts for the sake of art.”
― A.G. STRANGER

“Poetry is what you turn to when nothing else works.”
― A.G. STRANGER

“Love is artists' foremost muse.”
― A.G. Stranger

“A man is nothing without a family, however great he might seem.”
― A.G. Stranger

“Art is therapy for the broken souls.”
― A.G. Stranger

“Beauty that the eyes can see and let the soul stand impassible is an illusion.”
― A.G. Stranger

“Life is beautiful if one lives and reads its chapters with a thirst emanating from knowing that death might be lurking around the corner.”
― A.G. Stranger

“Writing about her felt safe, no longer scary of even dangerous”
― A.G. Stranger

“Happiness is having the freedom to do what you love.”
― A.G. Stranger

“Genius is madness.”
― A.G. Stranger

“A writer's greatest pain is reading his own words that once meant everything but as time slid, became a hollow shell of what they used to be. It is like watching your babies blooming and then withering to death in your lifetime. You still love them but the pain outweighs that love until both fade slowly into forgotten memories. You move on but every once in a while something evokes your words, your babies, unburies them from a supposedly forgotten past. And everytime, your insides scream from agony, begging your heart to let go. "I can't", the heart whispers but "I'll share the pain", he adds.”
― A.G STRANGER (Ahmed Ghrib)

“I do not fear death. I fear dying before reaching my full potential. I dread setting my feet in the afterlife before I radiate all of the richness I have within, before exploring all of the opportunities life can offer me.”
― A.G. Stranger

“When life gets tough, I remind myself that things could have been much worse.”
― A.G. Stranger

“The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Beauty is the antidote to life.”
― A.G. Stranger

“Seeing a gem like you surrounded with rust is what makes this heart mourn.”
― A.G. Stranger

“Being different is good insofar as it brings parts of ourselves that we didn't know they were there in the first place.”
― A.G. Stranger

“هي لا تحبُّكَ أَنتَ
يعجبُها مجازُكَ
أَنتَ شاعرُها
وهذا كُلُّ ما في الأَمرِ/

يُعجبُها اندفاعُ النهر في الإيقاعِ
كن نهراً لتعجبها!
ويعجبُها جِماعُ البرق والأصوات
قافيةً....
تُسيلُ لُعَابَ نهديها
على حرفٍ
فكن أَلِفاً... لتعجبها!
ويعجبها ارتفاعُ الشيء
من شيء إلى ضوء
ومن جِرْسٍ إلى حِسِّ
فكن إحدى عواطفها .... لتعجبَها

ويعجبها صراعُ مسائها مع صدرها:
] عذَّبْتَني يا حُبُّ
يا نهراً يَصُبُّ مُجُونَهُ الوحشيَّ
خارج غرفتي...
يا حُبُّ! إن تُدْمِني شبقاً
قتلتك [
كُنْ ملاكاً، لا ليعجبها مجازُك
بل لتقتلك انتقاماً من أُنوثتها
ومن شَرَك المجاز...لعلَّها
صارت تحبُّكَ أَنتَ مُذْ أَدخلتها
في اللازورد، وصرتَ أنتَ سواك
في أَعلى أعاليها هناك....
هناك صار الأمر ملتبساً
على الأبراج
بين الحوت والعذراء...”
― محمود درويش, كزهر اللوز أو أبعد

“One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
― Nikola Tesla

“A man who, night after night, falls like a lump of lead upon his bed, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises, will such a man ever dream of making, I do not say great discoveries, but even minute observations upon sleep? He barely knows that he does sleep. A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness. A memory without fault is not a very powerful incentive to studying the phenomena of memory.”
― Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

“Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history.”
― norman doidge, The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science