The Baghdad Clock Quotes

“Everything our eyes touch is just an idea. There's nothing real about reality. We are prisoners of our imaginations, and our experiences in the world of reality consist only of ideas. All of existence is an assembly of ideas. That is the sole truth. Don't believe anything else. And don't tell anyone, because people only believe things that come independently to their minds. Yet they don't know where the mind is to be found. There's never a day when they ask themselves, "Do I actually posses a thing called the mind? What is it shaped like? What's its colour?" The mind, my little one, is another idea. A complicated idea made of other ideas as though they were real.”
― Shahad Al Rawi, ساعة بغداد

“I do not want to enter the future. I am afraid of the past disappearing. I am afraid of the unknown. The future is open to all possibilities, and each possibility on the horizon these days frightens me. There are no miracles that the future will realise. It is a sick old man leaning on the crutch of the past he comes towards us.”
― Shahad Al Rawi, ساعة بغداد

“To stumble and fall when you are a college student is not the same as when you are in primary or secondary school. Childhood is a time for experiments, when we learn how to get back up quickly after a fall. As we get older, we learn that we are never supposed to stumble. Thus, with the passage of time, we lose the freedom even to trip.”
― Shahad Al Rawi, ساعة بغداد