Mariah Yassir > Mariah's Quotes

“My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

“All language is but a poor translation.”
― Franz Kafka

“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”
― Franz Kafka

“عن إنسان



وضعوا على فمه السلاسل

ربطوا يديه بصخرة الموتى ،

و قالوا : أنت قاتل !

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أخذوا طعامه و الملابس و البيارق

ورموه في زنزانة الموتى ،

وقالوا : أنت سارق !

طردوه من كل المرافيء

أخذوا حبيبته الصغيرة ،

ثم قالوا : أنت لاجيء !

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يا دامي العينين و الكفين !

إن الليل زائل

لا غرفة التوقيف باقية

و لا زرد السلاسل !

نيرون مات ، ولم تمت روما ...

بعينيها تقاتل !

وحبوب سنبلة تجف

..!ستملأ الوادي سنابل”
― محمود درويش

“How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov’s question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

“سقطت ذراعك فالتقطها

واضــرب عدوك .. لا مفر ُّ

وسقطت قربك ، فالتقطني

واضرب عدوك بي .. فأنت الآن حــر ُّ”
― محمود درويش, مديح الظل العالي

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“a lot of times
we are angry at other people
for not doing what
we should have done for ourselves

- responsibility”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“it isn't what we left behind
that breaks me
it's whatever we could've built
had we stayed”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost