Fatema Zaman > Fatema's Quotes

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

-The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)”
― Agatha Christie, The Hound of Death and Other Stories

“إنهم يريدون أن يفتحوا العالم وهم عاجزون عن فتح كتاب
ويريدون أن يخوضوا البحر وهم يتزحلقون بقطرة ماء
ويبشرون بثورة ثقافية تحرق الأخضر واليابس ، وثقافتهم لاتتجاوز باب المقهى الذي يجلسون فيه ، وعناوين الكتب المترجمة التي سمعوا عنها”
― نزار قباني, الكتابة عمل انقلابي

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter

“She was a woman with red hair and green eyes— the traits which Satan supposedly relished most in mortal females.”
― Robert Joseph Shea, The Eye in the Pyramid

“الكتابة شكلٌ من أشكال الصلاة”
― فرانز كافكا, الآثار الكاملة مع تفسيراتها: الجزء الأول - (الأسرة) يضم: الحكم ، الوقاد ، الانمساخ ، رسالة إلى الوالد

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

“I do not read for I have renounced life, I read because one life is just not enough for me.”
― Abbas Al-Akkad

“هل تسمحون لي
أن اعلم أطفالي أن الدين لله أولا، وليس
للمشايخ والفقهاء والناس؟

هل تسمحون لي
أن اعلم صغيرتي أن الدين هو أخلاق وأدب وتهذيب
وأمانة وصدق، قبل أن اعلمها بأي قدم تدخل الحمام وبأي يد تأكل؟”
― دلع المفتي

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.”
― John Denver

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis