Shiva Soleimany > Shiva's Quotes

“آدم باید در طول زندگی هر روز
کمی موسیقی گوش کند، کمی شعر بخواند و روزی یک تصویر زیبا ببیند
تا علایق دنیوی نتوانند حس زیبایی شناسی را خداوند در روح او قرار داده است، نابود کند”
― گوته

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

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“چه بی‌تابانه می‌خواهمت ای دوری‌ات آزمونِ تلخِ زنده‌به‌گوری!
چه بی‌تابانه تو را طلب می‌کنم!

بر پُشتِ سمندی
گویی
نوزین
که قرارش نیست.
و فاصله
تجربه‌یی بیهوده است.

بوی پیرهنت،
این‌جا
و اکنون.

کوه‌ها در فاصله
سردند.
دست
در کوچه و بستر
حضورِ مأنوسِ دستِ تو را می‌جوید،
و به راه اندیشیدن
یأس را
رَج می‌زند.

بی‌نجوای انگشتانت
فقط.
و جهان از هر سلامی خالی‌ست”
― احمد شاملو / Ahmad Shamlou

“I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

“But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows
disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the
shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings.
Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because
of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory