Hazim Gran > Hazim's Quotes

“We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Sand & Shakespeare's Memory

“I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“الشكوك ليست من الحب، بل من الواقع. أنت تعيش في سراب و تريد أن تجسده في حبك.”
― أناييس نن, Under a Glass Bell

“Today it is bad, and day by day it will get worse―until at last the worst of all arrives.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World

“The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in the universe through what he creates. He finds this a valuable integrating process which, like meditation or prayer, has little to do with other people, but which has its own separate validity. His most significant moments are those in which he attains some new insight, or makes some new discovery; and these moments are chiefly, if not invariably, those in which he is alone.”
― Anthony Storr, Solitude: A Return to the Self

“Man is a self-conscious nothing.”
― Julius Bahnsen