Shoody Something

“It was only an idea, a sudden flash, but it kept coming back to me, and I couldn't help thinking, why am I alive, what good is there in going on, but it's not true really, I didn't think anything of the sort, I was hardly thinking at all, I just imagined myself no longer alive and suddenly I felt such bliss, such strange bliss that I wanted to laugh and maybe really did begin to laugh.”
― Milan Kundera, The Joke

“Their message will never be decoded, not only because there is no key to it, but also because people have no patience to listen to it in an age when the accumulation of messages old and new is such that their voices cancel one another out. Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and an epoch of millennia will come which the inextensible memory of the individual will be unable to encompass; whole centuries and millennia will therefore fall away, centuries of painting and music, centuries of discoveries, of battles, of books, and this will be dire, because man will lose the notion of his self, and his history, unfathomable, unencompassable, will shrivel into a few schematic signs destitute of all sense.”
― Milan Kundera, The Joke

“With children in the house, you’re on call around the clock whether you like it or not. You don’t get the luxury of enough sleep when that was what you needed most to keep yourself from going over the edge.”
― Julia Claiborne Johnson, Be Frank With Me

“حياتك مجرد أحداث ، كومة من العناء ، حفنة من المضايقات يا صديقي ، لن تصفو كما تريد ، انها بشكل أو باخر تعني القلق ،القلق الذي ينهشك دائما ، القلق الذي يشعرك بأنك ما زلت على قيدها ، كأنها عبارة عن مسرح ، وأنت واقف على منصته ؛ هناك من ينتظر ظهورك ل يصفق لك ، هناك من لا يريد رؤيتك ؛ وهناك من أخذ يشتمك لأنك لم تمثل الدور الذي يعجبه ، هكذا تبدو ، تريد أن تنهيك ، وانت تريدها أن تستمر ، لذلك الصراع فيما بينكما يبدو طويلا ،لابد أن يربح أحدكما الاخر ، بقاؤكم على هذه الحلبة يجلب المزيد من اللكمات ، ولا تدري كيف تستسلم لها وتواجهها كما تأتي لا كما تتمنى .”
― رشاد حسن, حين رأيت صوتي