𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓭𝔂 > 𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓭𝔂's Quotes

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

“Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.”
― Emile Zola, Germinal

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
― Allan Gurganus

“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
― Amy Bloom, Away

“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

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”
― Jose Rizal

“Say to my friends, when they look upon me, dead,
Weeping for me and mourning me in sorrow,
‘Do not believe that this corpse you see is myself,
In the name of God, I tell you, it is not I,
I am a spirit, and this is naught but flesh,
It was my abode and my garment for a time.
I am a treasure, by a talisman kept hid,
Fashioned of dust, which served me as a shrine,
I am a pearl, which has left it’s shell deserted,
I am a bird, and this body was my cage,
Whence I have now flown forth and it is left as a token,
Praise to God, who hath now set me free,
And prepared for me my place in the highest of the Heavens,
Until today I was dead, though alive in your midst.
Now I live in truth, with the grave – clothes discarded.
Today I hold converse with the Saints above,
With no veil between, I see God face to face.
I look upon “Loh-i-Mahfuz” and there in I read,
Whatever was and is, and all that is to be.
Let my house fall in ruins, lay my cage in the ground,
Cast away the talisman, it is a token no more,
Lay aside my cloak, it was but my outer garment.
Place them all in the grave, let them be forgotten,
I have passed on my way and you are left behind,
Your place of abode was no dwelling place for me.
Think not that death is death, nay, it is life,
A life that surpasses all we could dream of here,
While in this world, here we are granted sleep,
Death is but sleep, sleep that shall be prolonged
Be not frightened when death draweth nigh,
It is but the departure for this blessed home,
Think of the mercy and love of your Lord,
Give thanks for His Grace and come without fear.
What I am now, even so shall you be,
For I know that you are even as I am,
The souls of all men come forth from God,
The bodies of all are compounded alike,
Good and evil, alike it was ours.
I give you now a message of good cheer
May God’s peace and joy forever more be yours.”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“قصيدة للإمام الغزالي حجة الإسلام
قالها قبل موته بدقائق
قال شقيقه الشيخ أحمد: لما حضرت أخي الوفاه قال هاتوا لي كفني لأتجهز للدخول على الملك ، فأخذه وصعد إلى غرفة بأعلى واغتسل ولبس كفنه وصعدنا بعده فوجدناه قد لحق بربه وإذا بهذه الرقعة بجوار رأسه وقد كتب فيها هذه الأبيات:
قل لإخوان رأوني ميتا فبكوني ورثوني حزنا
أتظنون بأني ميتكم ليس هذا الميت والله أنا
أنا في الصور وهذا جسدي كان لباسي وقميصي زمنا
أنا در قد حواني صدف طرت عنه وبقى مرتهنا
أنا عصفور وهذا قفصي كان سجني فتركت السجنا
أشكر الله الذي خلصني وبنا لي في المعالي وطنا
كنت قبل اليوم ميتا بينكم فحييت وخلعت الكفنا
قد ترحلت وخلفتكم لست أرضى داركم لي وطنا
وأنا اليوم أناجي ملكا وأرى الحق جهارا علنا
عاكفا في اللوح أقرأ وأرى كل ما كان ويأتي أو دنا
وطعامي وشرابي واحد وهو رمز فافهموه حسنا
ليس خمرا سائغا أو عسلا لا ولا ماء ولكن لبنا
هو شراب رسول الله إذ كان لسر من فطرة فطرتنا
حي ذى الدار بنوم مغرق فإذا ما مات طار الوسنا
لا تظنوا الموت موتا إنه لحياة وهو غايات المنى
لا ترعكم هجمة الموت فما هو إلا إنتقال من هنا
اخلعوا الأجساد من أنفسكم تبصروا الحق عيانا بينا
وخذوا في الزاد جهدا لا تنوا ليس بالعاقل هنا من ونا
أحسنوا الظن برب راحم تشكروا السعي وتأتوا أمنا
ما أرى نفسي إلا أنتم واعتقادي أنكم أنتم أنا
عنصر الأنفاس منا واحد وكذا الأجسام جسم عمنا
فمتى ما كان خير لنا ومتى ما كان شر فمنا
فارحموني ترحموا أنفسكم واعلموا أنكم في أثرنا
أسأل الله لنفسي رحمة رحم الله صديقا أمنا
وعليكم مني سلام طيب وسلام الله بر وثنا”
― الإمام الغزالي رحمه الله

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre