Sana'a > Sana'a's Quotes

“و أتيه في شوارع كل المدن, أفتش عن عيون مثل عيونها.. فلا أجد!
أبحث و أبحث ولكن لا أصل.
عيون تختلط ألوانها بالندى, برذاذ الأمطار, بالتراب المبلول, بالشموس,
فتجعل منها شيئاً لا يوصف„ لا يسمى, لا يصدق”
― عبدالرحمن منيف, الأشجار واغتيال مرزوق

“Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
― John Lennon

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“أيّ ذكرى مؤلمة بالضرورة. حتى لو كانت من ذكريات اللحظات الهانئة، فتلك أيضا مؤلمة لفواتها.”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

“اللغة لا تنطق بذاتها
، وإنما ينطق بها أهلها، فإن تغيروا تغيرت.”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“قد نضيق بالحبّ إذا وُجد، ولكن شَدَّ مانفتقده إذا ذهب.”
― نجيب محفوظ

“قريبٌ أنت إلى أبعد حدّ، بعيدٌ أنت إلى أقرب مدى.”
― أثير عبدالله النشمي, أحببتك أكثر مما ينبغي

“نحن لا نفقد سوى مانخشى فقده لأننا عادة لا نشعر بفقدان مالا يشكل لنا أهمية تذكر”
― أثير عبدالله, أحببتك أكثر مما ينبغي

“إنَّ البوح يُحيي الحب والكتمانُ يُميته.”
― يوسف زيدان, محال

“والآن أشهد أن حضورك موت
وأن غيابك موتان”
― محمود درويش

“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
― Ayn Rand

“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.”
― Charlie Schultz

“here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)”
― e.e. cummings

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

“You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“وإذا كانت في حياة كل إنسان لحظات ومواقف تأبى أن تغادر الذاكرة، فليس لأنها الأهم، أو لأنها أعطت لحياته مسارًا ومعنى، إذ ربما لم تقع بنفس الدقة أو بالتفاصيل التي يتخيلها أو يفترضها، وإنما لفرط ما استعادها في ذاكرته بشكل معين، ربما الذي يتمناه، يومًا بعد آخر، فقد أصبحت وحدها الحقيقة، أو وهم الحقيقة.”
― عبدالرحمن منيف

“لا تعد فحبي ليس مقعدً في حديقة عامة !تمضي عنه متى شئت .. وترجع إليه في أي وقت

لا تعتذر

فالرصاصة التي تطلق لا تسترد .. !!”
― غادة السمان

“يوم آخر يمر؛ دون أن يترك لي شيء أتذكره به غداً!”
― هديل الحضيف, غرفة خلفية

“و شعرت بأن فى روحى ثقباً .. ثقباً يتسع .. و يمتص كل ذكرياتى و حياتى و أحلامى ..
وددت لو كان شخص أعرفه بقربى .. أحكى له كل شئ .. أقص عليه حكاية الثقب”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“و بينما كانت مشكلة الشعوب الأوروبية الوسيطية هي توليد الدولة من الكنيسة و انتزاع شرعية وجودها المستقل منها , و بالتالي تحويلها إلى مصدر للحرّيّة الدينية و العقلانيّة , كانت مشكلة الشعوب العربية و الإسلامية في العصر الوسيط ذاته هي تأهيل و تكبيل الدولة بالدين أي تقييد حرية الحاكم الفرد المطلق و فرض التراجع علي إرادته التعسّفية لخلق حيّز من الكرامة الذاتيّة , يكون للمجتمع فيه بفضل من اللحمة الددينية و التجربة الروحية و الصوفي مكانته المستقلّة و حقيقته الإنسانيّة”
― برهان غليون, النظام السياسي في الإسلام

“في انتظارِكِ، لا أستطيعُ انتظارَكِ
لا أَستطيعُ قراءةَ دوستويفسكي
ولا الاستماعَ إلي أُمِّ كلثوم أَو ماريّا كالاس
وغيرهما
في انتظارك تمشي العقاربُ في ساعةِ اليد نحو اليسار
إلي زَمَنٍ لا مكانَ لَهُ
في انتظارك لم أنتظرك، انتظرتُ الأزَلْ”
― محمود درويش, حالة حصار