عمر فؤاد

“In other words, you might say that I still have no understanding of what makes human beings tick. My apprehension on discovering that my concept of happiness seemed to be completely at variance with that of everyone else was so great as to make me toss sleeplessly and groan night after night in my bed. It drove me indeed to the brink of lunacy. I wonder if I have actually been happy. People have told me, really more times than I can remember, ever since I was a small boy, how lucky I was, but I have always felt as if I were suffering in hell. It has seemed to me in fact that those who called me lucky were incomparably more fortunate than I.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“احذر يابني، عبارة التملق المتكررة لن تكون مرضية في نهاية الأمر، وبالتالي ستصير كما السُبّة.”
― José Saramago, A Viagem do Elefante

“قال الطبيبُ:
لأن قلبه..
أصبح كبيرًا جدًا..
بالنسبة غلى جسده،

..

مات.”
― علاء عبد الهادي, مهمل تستدلون عليه بظل

“يوم من دون قراءة يخلف في النفس نوعا من تأنيب الضمير الذي يعتري المؤمن إذا ما فاته الفرض”
― إبراهيم أصلان, شيء من هذا القبيل