Susan Mohamed > Susan's Quotes

“Hope clouds observation.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.”
― Martin Amis, Money: A Suicide Note

“Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
― Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”
― Rumi

“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
― Rumi

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
― Rumi

“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
― Jalalu'l-din Rumi

“When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“كم هم سعداء أولئك الذين يتخلصون من الأغلال التى ترسخ بها حياتهم.”
― جلال الدين الرومي, مختارات من قصائد جلال الدين الرومي

“وقال شفيق لأبيه ذات مساء :
نحن جيل من الضحايا , إني أصدق من يقول ذلك
فسأله محمد : ضحايا لمن ؟
أجاب : لجميع من سبقنا!”
― نجيب محفوظ, الباقي من الزمن ساعة

“الصواب يتوارى عند احتدام الخصام ولكنه لا يفنى أبداً”
― نجيب محفوظ, الباقي من الزمن ساعة

“الناس يحبون ليسعدوا.. لا ليجعلوا من حياتهم نادرة يتندر بها”
― نجيب محفوظ, الباقي من الزمن ساعة

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts

“إنني أثرثر كثيراً . . ولأنني أكثر الكلام لا أعمل شيئاً . . أو على الأصح إنني أثرثر لافتقاري إلى العمل”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“إنَّ أكبرَ إهانةٍ يمكنُ أن تُلحقها بإنسانٍ في عصرنا ومِنْ جنسنا هي أنْ تنعتهُ بأنهُ محرومٌ مِنَ الأصالةِ والإرادةِ والمواهبِ الخاصة، وأن تقولَ عنهُ: إنّهُ رجلٌ عادي.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, الأبله: الجزء الأول

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“أتساءل متى تنتهي هذه الرقابة التي أمارسها على ذاتي عبر أعين الآخرين؛ لماذا دائماً هذا الخزي الذي لا ينقطع؟”
― عزيز محمد, .الحالة الحرجة للمدعو ك

“المبرر الحقيقي الوحيد لوجود الصداقة: توفير مرآة للغير تمكّنه من تأمّل صورته الماضية فيها، تلك الصورة التي بدون ثرثرة الذكريات الأبدية بين الأصدقاء، تعرضت للمحو منذ زمن بعيد.”
― ميلان كونديرا

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl