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“Home is not where you are born;
home is where all your attempts
to escape cease.”
― Naguib Mahfouz

“Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism

“أما بالنسبة لي فأنا لا أستطيع فهم نفسي أبدا.. أجدني دائما ممزقا بين اليأس المظلم و عدم الاكتراث التام.. أنا خجول لا ثقة لي بنفسي .. ضميري جبان.. و أنا عاجز تماما عن التكيف مع الحياة لأصبح سيد مصيري.. الرجال الآخرون يقولون كلاما فارغا أو يخدع كلا منهم الآخر و يجدون متعة في ذلك.. في حين لا أجدني إلا مضطرا أو غير مكترث.. حتى و أنا أحاول فعل الخير!”
― Anton Chekhov, Three Years

“A crazy country, choking air, polluted hearts, treachery. Treachery and treason.”
― Naguib Mahfouz

“أنت وغد ولكنني لا أكره الأوغاد، فأنا أيضًا وغد.”
― الطيب صالح, موسم الهجرة إلى الشمال

“All stories are love stories.”
― Robert McLiam Wilson, Eureka Street

“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“الخوف مولود شرعي للقلق و اب اصيل للأوهام”
― ياسر ثابت, جمهورية الفوضى

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

“They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong ”
― Franz Kafka

“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.”
― Franz Kafka

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“عند القراءة نحن سذّج . نحن نقرأ بحركات بطيئة وطويلة كما لو كنّا نسبح في الفضاء . نحن ممتلئون أحكاماً مسبقة وأحقاداً . أو أننا كرماء , نغفر للنص عيوبه ونتغافل عن ضعفه و نصحح أخطاءه . في بعض الأحيان , عندما تكون السماء صحوة صافية , نقرأ بأنفاس محبوسة , بارتجاف , كما لو أنّ أحدهم قد (( سار على قبرنا )) , كما لو أنّ ذكرى قديمة منسية عُثر عليها فجأة في داخلنا - التعرف على شيء ما سبق أن عرفنا أنه كان موجوداً , أو على شيء لم نشعر به إلا كوميض أو ظل , الذي ينطلق منا ويعود إلى داخلنا قبل أن نعرف ماذا حدث - بعدئذ نكون قد تقدمنا في السن وأصبحنا أكثر حكمة”
― Alberto Manguel

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“منّ مِن الناس أحبُ إليك : إنسانٌ يُميتك حباً، أم إنسانٌ يُحييك كراهة؟”
― إبراهيم الكوني, البحث عن المكان الضائع

“We practically always excuse things when we understand them”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

“من آمن بعقله أغناه عن كل شيء.”
― نجيب محفوظ, The Journey of Ibn Fattouma

“كنت أعجب لقوته هذة وقدرته على احتقار البشر إلى هذا الحد، وفي نفس الوقت لوجود هذة الرغبة عنده في أن يعيش ويعمل معهم. أما أنا فإما أن أصبح ناسكاً، وإما أن أزين البشر بريشٍ زائف كي أستطيع تحملهم.”
― نيكوس كازانتزاكي, Zorba the Greek

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then �� to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Only fools want to be great.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved...”
― Ivan Turgenev

“Freedom is the dream you dream
While putting thought in chains again --”
― Giacomo Leopardi, Canti

“But I am not perfect in my way of putting things
Because I lack the divine simplicity
Of being only what I appear to be.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa

“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.”
― Konstantin Josef Jireček