Mohammad Olwan

“لو دخل كل منا قلب الأخر لأشفق عليه ولرأى عدل الموازين الباطنيه برغم اختلال الموازين الظاهريه ولما شعر بحسد ولا بحقد ولا بزهو ولا بغرور”
― مصطفى محمود, أناشيد الإثم والبراءة

“I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people’s time. I learned, in short, that love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“أنا لا يعنيني ما تؤمن به!يعنيني ما الذي تفعله بهذا الإيمان...”
― إبراهيم نصر الله

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi