Ahmed Kotb

“ھناك لحظة في حياة كل فنان مصري يقرر فيها أن وقت المواعظ المباشرة والمُثُل قد جاء.. ھذا الطور
مرت به فاتن حمامة ثم سميرة أحمد ثم محمد صبحي .. ما دام فنانا كبيرا فلا بد أن يقول كلاما كبيرا وأن يكون ملحميا كأنه ضمير الأمة القادم من عالم لا وجود له .. إنھا لحظة موت الفن.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“This great evil, where's it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doing this? Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we might've known? Does our ruin benefit the earth, does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed through this night?”
― James Jones, The thin red line

“Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.”
― Slavoj Žižek