W Quotes

“Wagons rattling and banging,
horses neighing and snorting,
conscripts marching, each with bow and arrows at his hip,
fathers and mothers, wives and children, running to see them off--
so much dust kicked up you can't see Xian-yang Bridge!
And the families pulling at their clothes, stamping feet in anger,
blocking the way and weeping--
ah, the sound of their wailing rises straight up to assault heaven.
And a passerby asks, "What's going on?"
The soldier says simply, "This happens all the time.
From age fifteen some are sent to guard the north,
and even at forty some work the army farms in the west.
When they leave home, the village headman has to wrap their turbans for them;
when they come back, white-haired, they're still guarding the frontier.
The frontier posts run with blood enough to fill an ocean,
and the war-loving Emperor's dreams of conquest have still not ended.”
― Tu Fu

“Words are forces of life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“In a just cause, the weak overcome the strong”.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

“We spend the first half of our lives making ourselves sick, and the second half of our lives trying to make ourselves un-sick.” – Kevin W. Reese”
― Kevin W. Reese

“The human body is a tube and tank machine with an electrical system that is made up of trillions of cells and two fluids, which are designed to create and react to chemistry. While this machine can malfunction, malfunctions can be fixed.” – Kevin W. Reese”
― Kevin W. Reese

“Money, food, and sex are overrated. They become attachments that enslave the untrained mind. Freedom has no cravings.” – Kevin W. Reese”
― Kevin W. Reese

“There were no weapons of mass destruction. And we bombed them anyway.
And, by the way he's destroyed the economy. He's squandered something in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars.
It seems impossible to Tyler that that might not matter. It drives him insane.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen

“El idioma imposible era la negación del vulgar dialecto de la vida, añadir más música a la música: invención, una sombra más verdadera que la luz; formas de vigor que, en mi caso, ascendían de Pepito el Yeyé, y su derramar ficciones urgentes sobre mágicas salas de baile en una Nueva York figuración idílica de su barrio. En ese cielo de parquet la muchedumbre alborotada perdía de vista las miserias del mundo hasta el límite, hasta lo radiante. Pepito y Elsa, cada uno a su modo, tendían a que sus historias fueran agradables, pero también importantes, como una revelación, la Idea misma, divinamente inútil. Quisimos ser ingenuos por segunda vez, para perdonar y perdonarnos, y eso nos partió por la mitad, estampados contra la roca de los tiempos, mientras en el aire brillan cristales marinos.”
― Francisco Casavella, El idioma imposible

“tell me even though lies soft words
it was about to kill me with you that statue

i still in the art of love a baby
between us seas and mountains

you still can't understand
that all men are babies

so if i stood before your love quietly
then quietness in the love is love

our words in love are killing our love
and letters are dying after they're said

love stories may drive you crazy
cause its all full of fantasies

love is not a story,my dear
where the stars marry each other by the end

its to get hot blooded for anything silly
it's our misery, it's our killing doubting

it's this hand that assassin us
and we accept that hand that assassin”
― Nizar Qabbani, عاشقانه های نزار قبانی

“The moment we accept each other as Human beings, we shall find harmony.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Without been a warrior, how can the victory be won in this life?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There's madness in the eyes and looks of people, tragedy is at stake whatever you do people will get mad at you”
― Ben Jr Grey

“The Laments.
She wailed. The wailer.
She walked. The walker.
She talked. The talker.
She searched. The searcher.”
― Mitta Xinindlu