Kamal Ziadah > Kamal's Quotes

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“To be is to do - Socrates

To do is to be - Sartre

Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

“L'amour est un grand maître


"Il le faut avouer, l'amour est un grand maître
Ce qu'on ne sut jamais il nous enseigne à l'être ;
Et souvent de nos moeurs l'absolu changement
Devient, par ses leçons, l'ouvrage d'un moment ;
De la nature, en nous, il force les obstacles,
Et ses effets soudains ont de l'air des miracles ;
D'un avare à l'instant il fait un libéral,
Un vaillant d'un poltron, un civil d'un brutal ;
Il rend agile à tout l'âme la plus pesante,
Et donne de l'esprit à la plus innocente."
L'Ecole des femmes, III, 4 (v. 900-909)”
― Molière, L'Ecole Des Femmes / La Critique de L'Ecole Des Femmes / Remerciment Au Roi / L'Impromptu de Versailles / La Princesse D'Elide

“Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those that he has selected.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“كان جسدها يتأرجح ليذهب بعيداً ثم يعود إلى البداية حيث وقف هو يستقبل جسدها في مكانه ويعاود دفعها بينما كانت روحها تسري في عروقها، تلك الروح التي كلما أمسك بها فلتت منه في أعماق النهر”
― Nather Henafe Alali نذير حنافي العلي, قارئة الفنجان

“It's not dark yet
But it's getting there”
― Bob Dylan

“قبلتها تسعاً وتسعين قبلة
وواحدة أخرى وكنت على عجل
وعانقتها حتى تقطع عقدها
وحتى فصوص الطوق من جيدها انفصل
كأن لآلئ الطوق لما تناثرت
ضياء مصابيح تطايرن من شعل”
― امرؤ القيس

“If someday the moon calls you by your name don’t be surprised,
Because every night I tell her about you.”
― Shahrazad al-Khalij

“A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.”
― Dante

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”
― Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“بلغوها إذا أتيتم حماها
أنني مت في الغرام فداها
واذكروني لها بكل جميل
فعساها تبكي علي عساها
واصحبوها لتربتي ، فعظامي
تشتهي أن تدوسها قدماها
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لم يشقني يوم القيامة ، لولا
أملي أنني هناك أراها
ولو أن النعيم كان جزائي
في جهادي والنار كانت جزاها :
لأتيت الإله زحفاً ، وعفرت
جبيني كي أستميل الإلها
وملأت السماء شكوى غرامي
فشغلت الأبرار عن تقواها
ومشى الحب في الملائك ، حتى
خاف جبريل منهم عقابا
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قلت : يا رب ، أي ذنب جنته
أي ذنب لقد ظلمت صباها
أنت ذوبت في محاجرها السحر
ورصعت باللاآلئ فاها
أنت عسلت ثغرها فقلوب الناس
نحل أكمامها شفتاها
أنت من لحظها شهرت حساماً
فبراء من الدماء يداها
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رحمة رب ، لست أسأل عدلاً ،
رب خذني إن أخطأت بخطاها
دع سليمى تكون حيث تراني
أو فدعني أكون حيث أراها”
― بشارة الخوري

“Your voice, your eyes, your hands, your lips
Our silence, our words
Light that goes, light that returns
A single smile between us
In quest of knowledge I watched night create day
O beloved of all, beloved of one alone
your mouth silently promised to be happy
Away, away, says hate
Closer, closer, says love
A caress leads us from our infancy
Increasingly I see the human form as a lovers’ dialogue
The heart has but one mouth
Everything by chance
All words without thought
Sentiments adrift
A glance, a word, because I love you
Everything moves
We must advance to live
Aim straight ahead toward those you love
I went toward you, endlessly toward the light
If you smile, it enfolds me all the better
The rays of your arms pierce the mist.”
― Paul Éluard

“Eye contact is a dangerous, dangerous thing. But lovely. God, so lovely.”
― Hedonist Poet

“Perhaps our dreams are there to be broken, and our plans are there to crumble, and our tomorrows are there to dissolve into todays, and perhaps all of this is all a giant invitation to wake up from the dream of separation, to awaken from the mirage of control, and embrace whole-heartedly what is present. Perhaps it is all a call to compassion, to a deep embrace of this universe in all its bliss and pain and bitter-sweet glory. Perhaps we were never really in control of our lives, and perhaps we are constantly invited to remember this, since we constantly forget it. Perhaps suffering is not the enemy at all, and at its core, there is a first-hand, real-time lesson we must all learn, if we are to be truly human, and truly divine. Perhaps breakdown always contains breakthrough. Perhaps suffering is simply a right of passage, not a test or a punishment, nor a signpost to something in the future or past, but a direct pointer to the mystery of existence itself, here and now. Perhaps life cannot go 'wrong' at all.”
― Jeff Foster

“There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.”
― Jim Morrison

“There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you”
― Jacques Lacan

“And I sit here alone and far from you and it’s night and I’m reflecting on everything all around me and I am thinking of you. I saw it in your eyes, in your love, you too are swinging towards the depths of your own being in longer and longer circles. I saw happiness and pain in your eyes and reflections of the paradises lost and regained and lost again, that terrible loneliness and happiness, yes, and I reflect upon this and I think about you.
(from As I Was Moving Ahead I Occasionally Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, 2000)”
― Jonas Mekas

“Most of the time, the universe speaks to us very quietly … in pockets of silence, in coincidences, in nature, in forgotten memories, in the shape of clouds, in moments of solitude, in small tugs at our hearts. — Yumi Sakugawa”
― Yumi Sakugawa