Abdelrahman Hammad > Abdelrahman's Quotes

“والحضن دايماً يختصر
نُص الكلام”
― مصطفى ابراهيم

“And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
― A.P. Chekhov

“If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“لا تحلموا بعالم سعيد

فخلف كلّ قيصر يموت : قيصر جديد

وخلف كلّ ثائر يموت : أحزان بلا جدوى

و دمعة سدى”
― أمل دنقل, كلمات سبارتكوس الأخيرة

“Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

“I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“والكلب يصبح ديب .. جزار ويبقى طبيب
عسكر وحراميه .. ولا تار ولا ديَّه

عشان كده الثورات .. طول عمرها بتخيب
والنصب م الحكومات .. ع الشعب بالتنصيب !”
― نجيب سرور, أميات نجيب سرور

“I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.”
― Charles Bukowski

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
― Edvard Munch

“Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“المأزق أننا - لاشعورياً ولا إرادياً - نبالغ في توقع ردود أفعال الآخرين بشكل غير منطقي، ننزل أنفسنا بمنزلة متضخمة، نعتقد أن لأفعالنا، كلماتنا، غيابنا، حضورنا تأثيراً مبالغاً فيه، رغم أنه لا شيء يطرأ على الكون”
― عمرو صبحي, يوميات كهل صغير السن

“الحياة كلاسيكية بشكل لا يمكننا تصديقه، لا شئ استثنائي، لن تقرأ سطراً في كتاب فتتغير حياتك ، أو تقابل شريكة حياتك في مترو الانفاق لأنها تستعمل ريكسونا !”
― عمرو صبحي

“Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is not only a kind of sin, theologically, but also a simple mistake, because nobody actually knows. In that sense there is always hope.”
― Patrick Curry, Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity – Essential Literary Criticism on Spirit, Ecology, and Ethics for Fans

“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

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“يبحث الواحد عن الحب ثم لا يعرف ما الذي يصنع به، تقبض اليد على اليد ثم تخاف ان يقيّدها ما تقبض عليه.”
― إيمان مرسال, حتى أتخلى عن فكرة البيوت

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
― Franz Kafka

“God is not a granter of wishes. God is a ruthless bitch.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost... I am helpless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I am in the same place.
But, it isn't my fault.
It still takes me a long time to get out.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in. It's a habit.
My eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault. I get out immediately.

walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

I walk down another street.”
― Portia Nelson, There's a Hole in My Sidewalk: The Romance of Self-Discovery

“Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.”
― Peter F. Drucker, Managing Oneself

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book