محمد

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“وقد فتّشتُ عن أصحابِ دينٍ
لهم نسكٌ وليسَ بهم رياءُ

فألفيْتُ البهائمَ لا عقولٌ
تقيمُ لها الدليلَ ولا ضياءُ

وإخوانُ الفَطَانةِ في اختيالٍ
كأنهمُ لقومٍ أنبياءُ

فأمّا هؤلاء فأهلُ مكرٍ
وأما الأولونَ فأغبياءُ”
― أبو العلاء المعرى

“I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?”
― Jess C. Scott, Wicked Lovely

“There are four kinds of readers. The first is like the hourglass; and their reading being as the sand, it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second is like the sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third is like a jelly bag, allowing all that is pure to pass away, and retaining only the refuse and dregs. And the fourth is like the slaves in the diamond mines of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, retain only pure gems.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge