Mariam Fikri > Mariam's Quotes

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
― Tim O'Brien

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
― Robert Jordan

“الحياه يمكن أن تستمر بجسد يتألم... الحياه يمكن أن تستمر بجسد عاجز.. و لكنها لا تستمر بنفس حطمها الفشل و الهزيمه و هدها الحزن و أنهكتها الصرعات.”
― عادل صادق, الألم النفسي والعضوي

“Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
― Andrea Barrett

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“إن الحب سر غامض لا يفهمه إلا الله”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground: w/White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man & selections from The House of the Dead

“ينضج واحدنا كحبة التمر، ظاهرها ليِّن ونواتها أقسى من أن تلين”
― سعود السنعوسي, فئران أمي حصة

“الغياب شكل من أشكال الحضور، يغيب البعض وهم حاضرون في أذهاننا أكثر من وقت حضورهم في حياتنا”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”
― Hugh Lofting

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.”
― judy blume

“نحن لا نفقد سوى مانخشى فقده لأننا عادة لا نشعر بفقدان مالا يشكل لنا أهمية تذكر”
― أثير عبدالله, أحببتك أكثر مما ينبغي

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet

“Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
― Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me