Yashar

“Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.”
― Martin Amis, The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007

“The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

“پس اين فرشتگان به چه كارى مشغولند
كه مثل پرندگان راست راست مى چرخند در هوا
سر ماه
حقوق شان را مى گيرند

پس اين فرشتگان به چه كارى مشغولند
كه مرگ تو را نديدند
كاش پر و بال شان در آتش آفتاب تير بسوزد
ما با ذغال شان
شعار خيابانى بنويسيم

پس اين فرشتگان پيرشده
جز جاسوسى ما
به چه كارِ بدِ ديگرى مشغولند
كه فرياد ما به گوش كسى نمى رسد”
― شمس لنگرودی