S. Mehdi

“The golden age of cultural theory is long past. The pioneering works of Jacques Lacan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault are several decades behind us [ … ] Some of them have since been struck down. Fate pushed Roland Barthes under a Parisian laundry van, and afflicted Michel Foucault with Aids. It dispatched Lacan, Williams and Bourdieu, and banished Louis Althusser to a psychiatric hospital for the murder of his wife. It seemed that God was not a structuralist.”
― Terry Eagleton, After Theory

“Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away.”
― Samuel Johnson, Essays From the Rambler and the Idler: With Passages From the Lives of the Poets Prayer and Meditations and Other Writings

“A little darkness, in itself, at the time, is nothing. You think no more about it and you go on. But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.”
― Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies

“به جـان، جـوشم که جـویای ِ تـو بـاشم

خـَسی بـر مـوج ِ دریای ِ تـو بـاشم

تـمـام آرزوهـای منـی، کـاش

یـکی از آرزوهـای ِ تـو بـاشم”
― شفیعی کدکنی