Jumanah

“There is no doubt that as one nears the penultimate depths of depression—which is to say just before the stage when one begins to act out one’s suicide instead of being a mere contemplator of it—the acute sense of loss is connected with a knowledge of life slipping away at accelerated speed. One develops fierce attachments. Ludicrous things—my reading glasses, a handkerchief, a certain writing instrument—became the objects of my demented possessiveness. Each momentary misplacement filled me with a frenzied dismay, each item being the tactile reminder of a world soon to be obliterated.”
― William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

“Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy; only because of that.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

“financial crisis, something bigger is at stake. The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don’t belong.”
― Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

“لم أعد أحبني، وأنا لا أعرف وحدةً أشد من ألا يحب الإنسان نفسه”
― حمزة كاشغري, الشاعر والقرصان