Hilal > Hilal's Quotes

“Look at walls splashed with a number of stains, or stones of various mixed colours. If you have to invent some scene, you can see there resemblances to a number of landscapes, adorned with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, great plains, valleys and hills, in various ways. Also you can see various battles, and lively postures of strange figures, expressions on faces, costumes and an infinite number of things, which you can reduce to good integrated form. This happens on such walls and varicoloured stones, (which act) like the sound of bells, in whose peeling you can find every name and word that you can imagine.
Do not despise my opinion, when I remind you that it should not hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or the ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which, if you consider them well, you may find really marvelous ideas. The mind of the painter is
stimulated to new discoveries, the composition of battles of animals and men, various compositions of landscapes and monstrous things, such as devils and similar things, which may bring you honor, because by indistinct things the mind is stimulated to new inventions.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.”
― سعدی

“A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.”
― Sa'di

“ترسم
چو باز گردی
از دست رفته باشم”
― سعدی

“You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.”
― André Gide, The Immoralist

“Aynı zamanda hem içten olmak, hem de öyle görünmek olası değil.”
― André Gide, The Immoralist

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
― Jalalu'l-din Rumi

“There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.”
― Rumi

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Our responsibility begins with our imagination.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What I’ve up till now, what I’m going to do — they know it all. Nothing gets past their watchful eyes. As I sit there under the shining night sky, again a violent fear takes hold of me. My heart’s pounding a mile a minute, and I can barely breathe. All these millions of stars looking down on me, and I’ve never given them more than a passing thought before. Not just the stars — how many other things haven’t I noticed in the world, things I know nothing about?”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“You're you, you see, and nobody else. You are you, right?”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.” Hoshino looked up, mouth half open, and gazed at her face. “What’s that?” “Henri Bergson,” she replied, licking the semen from the tip of his penis. [...] “I can’t think of anything special, but could you quote some more of that philosophy stuff? I don’t know why, but it might keep me from coming so quick. Otherwise I’ll lose it pretty fast.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“If I had to say anything it’d be this: Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives – they’re the ones you have to watch out for.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and imagine a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody here-me included-will have disappeared from the face of the earth and turned into ashes or dust. A weird thought, but everything in front of me starts to seem unreal, like a gust of wind could blow it all away.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Do you think music has the power to change people? Like you listen to a piece and go through some major change inside?”
Oshima nodded.“Sure, that can happen. We have an experience—like a chemical reaction—that transforms something inside us. When we examine ourselves later on, we discover that all the standards we’ve lived by have shot up another notch and the world’s opened up in unexpected ways. Yes, I’ve had that experience. Not often, but it has happened. It’s like falling in love.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“The Earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details of the real, there are dreams. And everyone's living in them.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Because your question searches for deep meaning,
I shall explain in simple words”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“From there we came outside and saw the stars”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“There is no greater sorrow
than thinking back upon a happy time
in misery--”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“you can't save people from the world. There's nowhere else to take them.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts

“The truth is the truth, the only prize worth having. If you deny it, you’re only showing that you’re unworthy of it.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts

“may we live as long as we want, and never want as long as we live,”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts