Bara > Bara's Quotes

“But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“لن تستطيعي أن تجدي الشمس في غرفة مغلقة ”
― غسان كنفاني

“في النهايات تتجلي البدايات لتُشعرك كم كنت تسير في الطريق الخاطئ”
― أيمن العتوم, يا صاحبي السجن

“هذي بلادي عُروقي بالمُنى نَبضَتْ
وخاطري، والهوى المَنقوشُ في كَبِدي
هي الحبيبَةُ عُمري كلّه فلقدْ
رهنْتُ أمسي، يومي دونها، وغَدِي‬”
― أيمن العتوم, نبوءات الجائعين

“لا تغني للحرب وانت خارج غبارها .. !”
― يامن النوباني

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Malice, my dear sir, is the animating spirit of criticism; and criticism is the beginning of progress and enlightenment”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain