Mohammed Osama > Mohammed's Quotes

“وتأملت كيف نزخرف أهواءنا بكلمات التقوى المضيئة، وكيف نداري حياءنا بقبسات الوحي الإلهي.”
― نجيب محفوظ, رحلة ابن فطومة

“لعل العيب في الكلام، لا في الفعل. فالأمر مادام مكتوما لا يُقال، و لا يُقال عنه، فهم يقبلونه.
المكتوم عند الناس مقبول.
الكلام هو العيب و هو ما يخيف.”
― يوسف زيدان, النبطي

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“التفاؤل في هذه الظروف يكاد يكون وقاحة”
― بهاء طاهر, نقطة النور

“أنا الملك جئت.. ولما المرأة ذهبت، ولما تفرق، الذين اجتمعوا حولي، ولما وجدت نفسي وحيدا، اكتملت في تمامي. ولما كنت أنت إلهي وأنا صفيك، أنت النور وأنا صدى النور، أتملى في ذاتي فأراك، وأتملى فيك فأراني.. فإني بعيد عن الآحاد، جئت لنكون واحدا أنا وأنت. الآن، ولم يبق وقت وبقى الأبد، الآن أناجيك فتعرفني, أدون سري بعيدا عن الأعين، لعينك أنت فتعرفني.. أتطلع إلى قرصك اللامع، الذي يرقب من السماء كل شيء، وأنقش على الصخر سري: إنّي حزين...”
― بهاء طاهر, أنا الملك جئت

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”
― Carl Sagan

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
― Carl Sagan

“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.”
― Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

“لماذا كان غضبك كالنار تحرق بلا رحمة؟
لماذا كان كبرياؤك أحب إليك من لحمك و دمك؟
و كيف تنعم بالحياة الرغيدة و أنت تعلم أننا نُداس بالأقدام كالحشرات؟
و العفو و اللين و التسامح ما شأنهما فى بيتك الكبير أيها الجبار؟”
― Naguib Mahfouz, أولاد حارتنا

“إني لا أصلي من أجلي، وليس رجاءً بشي..بل دفعاً لشقاء البقاء، أصلي دفعاً للقنوط الذي يهلكنا”
― الطاهر بنجلون, تلك العتمة الباهرة

“It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“عندما تقرر الانتحار تكون وقتها قد مت بالفعل .. ما ينقذونه بعد ذلك لا يكون هو أنت ولكن جثتك”
― بهاء طاهر, قالت ضحى