Mohammed Sharaf

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
― Samuel Johnson