Omar Cherif > Quotes

“My biological clock may be ticking, but I can’t hear it properly due to the singing cuckoo.”
― Omar Cherif

“Nothing too good or substantial can come out from people always agreeing with you. To grow means to be challenged — at least on occasions.”
― Omar Cherif

“In a world where speaking one’s mind is, by definition, unsettling, when I took art in general and writing in particular as vocations I promised myself that I would never betray my inner being or sell out. To “be real”, to be someone I can love and understand. From repression to expression, this meant not to censor oneself when it comes to creativity. For one could gain the world but lose their soul. At some point along the way I came to accept that, having an unquenched appetite for the different and unordinary, my views will always seem to convey a distaste for conformity and the established norms of the day; that which is considered “popular” by the masses. As an outsider swimming upstream against the current, usually in solitude, who’s looking in at humanity — and through it — rather than looking out. As such, I shall carry on speaking my unfiltered, anti-conformist, anti-establishment mind till the day I die. The true artist who does not fit in often ends up standing out.”
― Omar Cherif

“Getting married for the wrong reasons is often rectified by getting divorced for the right ones.”
― Omar Cherif

“Let your soul be your pilot; and enjoy the ride by sticking your head out the window.”
― Omar Cherif

“Nothing is more alienating than being somewhere full of people and realising, perhaps mid-conversation, that what they talk about belongs to a totally different plane of existence than the one in which you exist.”
― Omar Cherif

“People who add Latin phrases to their sentences to sound intellectual are like those who use words from Eastern religions and philosophies or traditional cultures to appear enlightened: They cannot be taken too seriously. That’s the de facto modus operandi of my kismet — قِسْمَة وَنَصِيبٍ — which didn’t emerge ex nihilo.

Carpe Omnia, everyone. Hoʻoponopono. Namaste. Et cetera.”
― Omar Cherif

“The writer seems to have a certain responsibility towards the reader.

I myself write to explore my wandering thoughts and fleeting emotions. Therefore be able to cognise, ponder, and reflect, in hope to comprehend my mind and inner being a little bit better. I write to know myself. I write to keep my (in)sanity. Put more bluntly, I write because I must.

When it comes to sharing the writings, I don’t do it to convince anyone with anything nor to prove any views. There is nothing to sell. I do it to offer the readers and the world a chance to enjoy my point of views — along with my sense of wonder, curiosity and confusion. I share so they may think for themselves; for them to question everything; for them to find their own Truth. I equally share so that those who think alike know they are not alone. For I am you and what I see is me. Not just as a reflection of humanity, as a writer or thinker, but also as a provocateur of a sort.”
― Omar Cherif

“Nothing too good can come out from people always agreeing with you.”
― Omar Cherif

“Most people who hold that childish kind of love for their country have never left it.”
― Omar Cherif

“Teach your children that whenever a mosquito bites them or a fly lands on their food, they are only trying to feed and survive. This is the natural order of things in Life. There is nothing personal about it as there is no reason to freak out or to curse the insects.”
― Omar Cherif

“Let your Soul be your pilot. Enjoy the ride by sticking your hands, head, and tongue out the window.”
― Omar Cherif

“Hearts that bend will always mend.”
― Omar Cherif

“May you always value the simple little things in Life. For they make a significant difference and hence are the most essential. Simplicity, in actuality, tends to be deeper than complexity. ‘Tis the reason why that which is simple often passes unperceived by the complex. If we look around us, we’ll find that the more one masters a certain domain the more simplification they will strive for.”
― Omar Cherif

“Misplaced commas are, egregious.”
― Omar Cherif

“Everyone has a story if we are willing to listen. Never judge the book by its look.”
― Omar Cherif

“The secret to reaching the listening hearts is to speak truth in humility.


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― Omar Cherif

“The way to the truth may be shown to you; but to find the truth, you must seek and dig it out yourself.


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― Omar Cherif

“I would choose uncertainty with a chance of happiness over certainty with guaranteed unhappiness on any given day.”
― Omar Cherif

“It truly is gratifying to have morals. Without expecting some divine reward or fearing any retribution, one can indeed be a decent human being who aspires to do the right things.”
― Omar Cherif

“A distorted truth or half-truth is much worse than no truth.
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― Omar Cherif

“The writer seems to have a certain responsibility towards the reader.

You see, I myself write to explore my wandering thoughts and fleeting emotions. Therefore be able to cognise, ponder, and reflect, in hope to comprehend my mind and inner being a little bit better. I write to know myself. I write to keep my (in)sanity. Put more bluntly, I write because I must.

When it comes to sharing the writings, I don’t do it to convince anyone with anything nor to prove any views. There is nothing to sell. I do it to offer the readers and the world a chance to enjoy my point of views — along with my sense of wonder, curiosity and confusion. I share so they may think for themselves; for them to question everything; for them to find their own Truth. I equally share so that those who think alike know they are not alone. For I am you and what I see is me. Not just as a reflection of humanity, as a writer or thinker, but also as a provocateur of a sort.”
― Omar Cherif

“Seeing yourself as half a person who can only become whole through being completed by another half is a waste of essence and potential. It is the greatest of illusions as it is an inevitable way to spend your entire life feeling incomplete and insecure. Someone fixated on being completed by a partner already feels incomplete. Even in a relationship, they would still feel they’re not good enough. The reality is, none of us is truly or essentially incomplete. Rather, we are works of art in progress — constantly evolving. If you must seek, look for another awakened whole so that you may amplify your wholeness together.”
― Omar Cherif

“Ever flickering between a faint glimmer and shining brightly, the creative soul is like a twinkling star. Their time in the darkness is the fuel needed to glow across the sky when the ‘light’ time comes. For them, embodying the significance of their insignificance by being nothing and everything simultaneously is the greatest poetry there is. Indeed, ’tis one prime essence of the Human Condition.”
― Omar Cherif

“Simplicity can be deeper than complexity. ’Tis the reason why the simple often passes unperceived by the complex.”
― Omar Cherif

“Jokes about full stops are not funny, period.”
― Omar Cherif

“When consciousness has not evolved through life, people tend to develop a juvenile emotional need for a patriarchal figure which represents a source of authority. Whether it’s a president, a boss, a religious leader, or even a God(s), the figures are accordingly looked upon as powerful, protective, comforting, and dependable entities to be trusted and followed.”
― Omar Cherif

“Truth is the cure to many diseases.”
― Omar Cherif

“Engaging in intellectual conversations can be quite erotic. Seducing the mind adds fire to the heart. The body then tends to follow.”
― Omar Cherif

“If their eyes twinkle when they smile — be it through your charm, humour, or naughtiness — you both hold the key to a special connection.”
― Omar Cherif