Shahd Al Ali

“It's about that applause I want to speak to you. I want you to remember that when you've done a little dance or a song or sketch, the applause which you get is not only because you yourself have done your best, but because each of those men is seeing in you someone he loves at home, and because of you is able to forget for a little while the unhappiness of not being in his home, and in some cases the great tragedy of not knowing what has happened to the children in his family.”
― Noel Streatfeild, Theater Shoes

“Silence is always beautiful, and a silent person is always more beautiful than one who talks.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent

“I don’t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]