Mohamed Saad

“The damaged loves the damaged.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff

“لا تترك الذكر لعدم حضورك مع الله فيه، لأن غفلتك عن وجود ذكره أشد من غفلتك فى وجود ذكره. فعسى أن يرفعك من ذكر مع وجود غفلة إلى ذكر مع وجود يقظة، و من ذكر مع وجود يقظة إلى ذكر مع وجود حضور، و من ذكر مع وجود حضور إلى ذكر مع غيبة عما سوى المذكور وما ذلك على الله بعزيز”
― أحمد بن عطاء الله السكندري, الحِكم العطائية

“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others--the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“أعليتُ دموعي
كي تبصرها يا اللـه
وقلت أعيد لك الأمطار
فلتنشر غيمك حيث تشاء
فإن الغوث يعود إليك
والحزن يعود إليّ”
― محمد علي شمس الدين, ينام على الشجر الأخضر الطير