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“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“Poor Catherine's dignity was not aggressive; it never sat in state; but if you pushed far enough you could find it. Her father had pushed very far.”
― Henry James, Washington Square

“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Where lies your text?
Viola: In Orsino's bosom.
Olivia: In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?
Viola: To answer by the method, in the first of his heart.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For when I say that I am of his kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract: I mean only that I have certain tastes and feelings in common with him.I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered: - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth, �� all energy, decision, will, �� were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me, �� that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
― Sylvia Plath

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“How we need another soul to cling to.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“القوانين حين تشتد في مصادرة حرية الرأي لا تحمي الفضيلة وإنما تحمي الرذيلة وتخلي بينها وبين النفوس”
― طه حسين, مستقبل الثقافة في مصر

“مصر خليقة أن يُحسب لها حساب حين ترضى، و أن يُحسب لها حساب حين تغضب، و أن يُحسب لها حساب حين تريد”
― طه حسين, أحاديث جدتي

“ليس من الحق على الشاعر أن يقدم إليك فنه الرائع وأنت هادئ وادع مطمئن ناعم البال ، وإنما الحق عليك أن تجدّ كما جدّ ، وتتعب كما تعب ، وتشقى بالتماس الجمال كما شقي هو بعرض هذا الجمال.”
― طه حسين, بين بين

“ أنما هو الحب هو الحب الذي يطمع في كل شئ و يرضى بأقل شئ، بل يرضى بلا شئ، بل هو سعيد كل السعادة ما وثق بأن بيتاًواحداً يحويه مع من يحب و يهوى. هو الحب ما في ذلك من شك، لكن الشك المؤلم المضني إنما يتصل بالقلب”
― طه حسين, دعاء الكروان

“ أليس من العجب أن يكون هذا الضوء الذي أخذ يغمرنا شراً من الظلمة التي خرجنا منها؟ إن احدنا لن يستطيع أن يهتدي في هذا الضوء إلا أذا قاده صاحبه. إن العبء لأثقل من أن تحمليه وحدك، و إن العبء لأثقل من ان احمله وحدي فلنتحمل شقاءنا معاً حتى يقضي الله أمراً كان مفعولاً”
― طه حسين, دعاء الكروان

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“هل الوطن هو الدواء حقا لكل الأحزان؟ و هل المقيمون فيه أقل حزنا؟”
― مريد البرغوثي, رأيت رام الله

“هناك ستارة سرية تحت تصرفي ، أشدها عند الحاجة ، فأحجب العالم الخارجي عن عالمي ، أشدها بسرعة وبشكل تلقائي عندما تستعصي ملاحظاتي وأفكاري على الإنكشاف بكامل وضوحها ، عندما يكون حجبها هو الطريقة الوحيدة لصيانتها ”
― مريد البرغوثي, رأيت رام الله

“السعيد، هو السعيد ليلاً والشقيّ، هو الشقي ليلاً أما النهار فيشغل أهله”
― مريد البرغوثي, رأيت رام الله

“العالم ليس معنياً بقدسنا، قدس الناس، قدس البيوت والشوارع المبلطة والأسواق الشعبية حيث التوابل والمخللات، قدس العتالين ومترجمي السياح الذين يعرفون من كل لغة ما يكفل لهم ثلاث وجبات معقولة في اليوم، خان الزيت وباعة التحف والصدف والكعك بالسمسم، المكتبة والطبيب وفساتين العرائس الغاليات المهور، قدس الجبنة البيضاء والزيت والزيتون والزعتر وسلال التين والقلائد والجلود وشارع صلاح الدين .هي القدس التي نسير فيها غافلين عن "قداستها" لأننا فيها ، لأنها نحن، هذه القدس العادية ، قدس أوقاتنا الصغيرة التي ننساها بسرعة لأننالا نحتاج إلى تذكرها، ولأنها عادية .كل الصراعات تفضل الرموز ، القدس الآن هي قدس اللاهوت !! العالم معني بـ "وضع" القدس، بفكرتها وأسطورتها، أما حياتنا وقدس حياتنا فلا تعنيه، إن قدس السماء ستحيا دائماً، أما حياتنا فيها فمهددة بالزوال”
― مريد البرغوثي , رأيت رام الله

“لا شئ بعدك يملأ القلب الحزين
لا حب بعدك.. لا اشتياقا.. لا حنين
فلقد غدوت اليوم عبدًا للسنين
تنساب أيامي وتنزف كالدماء
وتضيع شيئا بعد شئ كالضياء
وهناك في قلبي بقايا من وفاء
وتسافرين..
وأنتِ كل الناس عندي والرجاء
قولي لمن سيجئ بعدي
هكذا كان القضاء
قدر أراد لنا اللقاء
ثم انتهى ما بيننا
وبقيت وحدي للشقاء”
― فاروق جويدة, شيء سيبقى بيننا