Darya Saudade

“Anyone not wanting to sink in the wretchedness of the finite is obliged in the most profound sense to struggle with the infinite.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin

“The fact that political efforts of dissent and critique are often labeled as “violent” by the very state authorities that are threatened by those efforts is not a reason to despair of language use. It means only that we have to expand and refine the political vocabulary for thinking about violence and the resistance to violence, taking account of how that vocabulary is twisted and used to shield violent authorities against critique and opposition. When the critique of continuing colonial violence is deemed violent (Palestine), when a petition for peace is recast as an act of war (Turkey), when struggles for equality and freedom are construed as violent threats to state security (Black Lives Matter), or when “gender” is portrayed as a nuclear arsenal directed against the family (anti-gender ideology), then we are operating in the midst of politically consequential forms of phantasmagoria.”
― Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind

“وقتی دود سیگارش را به پنجره فوت میکرد گفت: من یک آلمانی اصیل هستم که لقب فون دارم. هرمان فون اشنایدر.
به فارسی گفتم: به تخمم.”
― عباس معروفی, فریدون سه پسر داشت

“تو مثل لاله‌ی پیش از طلوع دامنه‌ها
- که سر به صخره گذارد،
غریبی و پاکی
تو را، ز وحشت توفان، به سینه می‌فشرم
عجب سعادت غمناکی!”
― منوچهر آتشی, آواز خاک