Mariam Younan > Mariam's Quotes

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“لا شيء يرهق المرء أكثر من التزامات لا معنى لها”
― هاروكي موراكامي, يوميات طائر الزنبرك الجزء الثاني

“I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

“He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.”
― Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis

“The sister played so beautifully. Her face was tilted to one side and she followed the notes with soulful and probing eyes. Gregor advanced a little, keeping his eyes low so that they might possibly meet hers. Was he a beast if music could move him so?”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“Gregor’s serious wound, from which he suffered for over a month - the apple remained imbedded in his flesh as a visible souvenir since no one dared to remove it - seemed to have reminded even his father that Gregor was a member of the family, in spite of his present pathetic and repulsive shape, who could not be treated as an enemy; that, on the contrary, it was the commandment of the family duty to swallow their disgust and endure him, endure him and nothing more.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

“the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

“And he has to live like this on the edge of destruction, alone, with nobody at all to understand or pity him”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

“‏“إن الحب هو الإحساس الذي يشمل كل شيء، ولأجل ذلك حين يعشق المرء، ينتقل العالم إلى داخله، من أصغر الأشياء إلى أكبرها، دون أيّ فرق”
― أفونسو كروش, O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças

“إنّه لَمصدر سعادة كبيرة لنا أن نرى العالَم كلّما نظرنا إليه وكأننا نراه للمرة الأولى”
― Afonso Cruz, O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças

“لا شيء أفضع من رؤية باطن الإنسان، سواء تشريحيًّا أو أخلاقيًّ”
― Afonso Cruz, O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças

“الموت لا يأخذ الشخص فحسب، بل يأخذ كذلك صُوَرَه التي يحتفظ بها الآخرون في ذاكرتهم. الموت لا يترك أثرًا”
― Afonso Cruz, O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças

“ليس الخوف من الموت أمرًا سيّئًا، بل السيّئُ هو الخوف من الحياة”
― Afonso Cruz, O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças

“إنّ العالم بأسره يشدنا نحو الأسفل، لكن أيدي مَن يحبّوننا تدفعنا نحو الأعلى، دون كلل”
― Afonso Cruz, O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças

“كل شيء يسير في دوائر، بدءًا من الذكريات وانتهاءً بالحكايات”
― Afonso Cruz, O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças

“الماضي لا يبقى في الخلف البتّة، بل يرافقنا باستمرار ويسير أمامنا فلا نرى المستقبل إلا من خلاله”
― Afonso Cruz, O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças

“هناك مَن يعتقدون أنّ بإمكانهم أن يقرؤوا الكتاب من البداية إلى النهاية. غير أنّ هذا ليس ممكنًا. إنّ آخر صفحة في الكتاب هي أوّل صفحة في الكتاب الذي يليه”
― Afonso Cruz, O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças

“أيّة صورةٍ مشؤومة هذه، أن نرى الشكل الذي سنؤول إليه بعد سبع سنوات في التابوت. لكنّه أمرٌ مهم، فهذه هي الطريقة التي يتطوّر بها الطب، ولأجل هذا نفكّر في الحياة: بسبب التفكير في الموت”
― Afonso Cruz, O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças

“We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

“Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

“How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another?”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

“I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. they say it closely resembles death.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris

“We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris