Asma Ghrairi > Asma's Quotes

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“إن السعادة تنتقل بالعدوى ..لا تنتظر عدوى أحد .. كن حاملاً لهذا الميكروب”
― أنيس منصور

“إن انتشار الكفر في العالم يحمل نصف أوزاره متدينون بغضوا الله إلى خلقه بسوء صنيعهم وسوء كلامهم”
― محمد الغزالي

“القراءة وحدها هي التي تُعطي الإنسان الواحد أكثر من حياة واحدة؛ لأنها تزيد هذه الحياة عمقاً، وإن كانت لا تطيلها بمقدار الحساب”
― عباس محمود العقاد

“The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“الحب علمني ، في وقت متأخرًا جدًا ، أن المرء يتهندم من أجل أحد ، يلبس ويتعطر من أجل أحد ، وأنا لم يكن لدي قط من أفعل ذلك من أجله”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“ليس السن هي مابلغه أحدنا من العمر ، بل مايشعر به”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretence invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“أن المرء يشيخ في الصور أكثر ، و بصورة أسوأ ، مما هو في الواقع”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“ما لا تغفره المرأة لرجل أبداً هو التجاهل”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they had happened.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things, though memory does not often fail with regard to things that are of real interest to us.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“I returned home tormented by the little demon who whispers into our ear the devastating replies we didn’t give at the right time,”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“I was ignorant in the art of seduction and had always chosen my brides for a night at random, more for their price than their charms, and we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were. That night I discovered the improbable pleasure of contemplating the body of a sleeping woman without the urgencies of desire or the obstacles of modesty.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“الخدمة أغلى ثمنًا كلما كانت أكثر عرضة للعقاب”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“أن ذاكرة المسنين تضيع في الأمور غير الجوهرية ، ولكنها نادرًا ماتخطئ في الأمور التي تهمنا حقنا”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“لا يوجد ما هو اتعس من أن يموت الإنسان وحيداً”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“أن من لا يعرف الغناء، لن يستطيع أبداً حتى أن يتخيل ما الذي تفعله في النفس بهجة الغناء”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“There’s no greater misfortune than dying alone.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“No old man forgets where he has hidden his treasure.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde