Moe Fattal > Moe's Quotes

“i thought marriage was two people being alone together but it was just one person watching..”
― Yukiko Motoya

“writing is the only way i have not to kill..
not others.. myself..”
― Cristina Campo

“i am not writing you because i love you..
i am writing you because not writing you is a slow way of dying..”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

“in the snow country, even love seems fragile, as if it melts with the first ray of sunlight..”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country & Thousand Cranes

“human beings are born only to perish..”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“I'm not really sure who I am but I love reading books.”
― Krzysztof Kieslowski

“Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“I am someone who did not die when I should have died.”
― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

“I lack myself.”
― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

“Water is something you cannot hold. Like men. I have tried, Father, brother, lover, true friends, hungry ghosts and God, one by one all took themselves out of my hands.”
― Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

“Минуй нас пуще всех печалей
И барский гнев, и барская любовь.”
― Alexander Griboyedov, Горе от ума

“...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“أَفضَلُ المُقَبِّلَاتِ هُوَ الجُوعُ..”
― الجاحظ

“لَعَجَبٌ مِمَّنْ يَطْلُبُ الحَقَّ وَهُوَ لَا يَحْتَمِلُ مَرَارَتَهُ..”
― mohamad fattal

“إِنَّ النَّاسَ قَدْ أَلِفُوا الشَّقَاءَ حَتَّى صَارَ عِنْدَهُمْ أَصْلًا، وَأَمَّا السَّعَادَةُ فَعَارِضَةٌ إِن حَضَرَتْ اسْتَعْجَبُوا مِنْهَا، وَإِن غَابَتْ لَمْ يَسْأَلُوا عَنْهَا..
لِذَا كَانَ الإِيمَانُ بِالعَذَابِ أَهْوَنَ عَلَى نَفْسِي، لِأَنَّ لَهُ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ نَظِيرًا، وَكَانَتِ الرَّحْمَةُ الخَالِصَةُ أَمْرًا يَعْزُّ عَلَيَّ تَصَوُّرُهُ، إِذْ لَمْ أُبْصِرْ فِي مَعَاشِ النَّاسِ مَا يَدُلُّ عَلَيْهِ دَلَالَةَ العَيَانِ..”
― الجاحظ

“إِنِّي أَرَى النَّاسَ عَلَى مَا هُمْ عَلَيْهِ، لَا أَطْلُبُ لَهُمْ كَمَالًا، وَلَا أُنْزِلُهُمْ مَنْزِلَةَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ، بَلْ أُدَرِّبُ نَفْسِي عَلَى احْتِمَالِ مَا يَأْتُونَ بِهِ مِنْ زَلَلٍ، وَأَجْعَلُ الْحِلْمَ مَرْكَبًا، وَالصَّبْرَ سِلَاحًا، فَإِنَّ مُعَاشَرَةَ الْبَشَرِ لَا تَصْلُحُ إِلَّا بِالتَّغَاضِي، وَمَنْ رَامَ أَنْ يَرَاهُمْ بِلَا عَيْبٍ، فَقَدْ رَامَ مُحَالًا..”
― موليير, The Misanthrope

“Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
― Epictetus

“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master;
he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.”
― Epictetus

“If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.”
― Romain Gary

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“One morning I woke up and weighed zero. Not metaphorically. The scale said: 0.
Finally, I thought. I'm light enough now that no one will notice me.
But lightness isn't freedom. Lightness is becoming polluted air that no one bothers to open a window for.”
― Yukiko Motoya

“Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.”
― Yukio Mishima, Forbidden Colors

“In the pale light of midnight’s foggy street,
I’m haunted by the goodbye in your eyes.”
― Yukio Mishima, Star

“there are people who can’t live unless they’re being watched, and people who can’t live once they are..”
― Yukiko Motoya

“السَّعَادَةُ؟.. مَا أَبْصَرْتُ لَهَا وَجْهاً قَطُّ، وَمَا بَلَغَنِي عَنْهَا سِوَى أَقَاوِيلَ تُتَنَاقَلُ..”
― Osamu Dazai, Waiting

“لَمْ يَكُنْ فِي وُسْعِهِ أَنْ يَبْذُلَ لِأَحَدٍ غَيْرَ اضْطِرَابِهِ وَتَشَوُّشِهِ..”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

“أَنَا أُحِبُّكِ.. وَهَذَا هُوَ ذَنْبِي الَّذِي لَا يُغْتَفَرُ..”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Spider's Thread

“Of two sisters
one is always the watcher,
one the dancer.”
― Louise Glück, Descending Figure

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”
― Louise Gluck