Seraa

“When you go into the ER, one of the first things they ask you to do is rate your pain on a scale of one to ten, and from there they decide which drugs to use and how quickly to use them. I'd been asked this question hundreds of times over the years, and I remember once early on when I couldn't get my breath and it felt like my chest was on fire, flames licking the inside of my ribs fighting for a way to burn out of my body, my parents took me to the ER. nurse asked me about the pain, and I couldn't even speak, so I held up nine fingers.

Later, after they'd given me something, the nurse came in and she was kind of stroking my head while she took my blood pressure and said, "You know how I know you're a fighter? You called a ten a nine."

But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.”
― William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

“We are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different. KURT VONNEGUT, JR.”
― Christopher Ryan, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships

“إبليس: هل تعرف أنني أعجب أحيانا لنفاق ابن آدم, وقدرته على مسح ذنوبه في ذقننا نحن, أو ذقن النساء. يقول الرجل لابنه عندما يكبر: اتلحلح ياولد وصادق فتاة ولا تكن مثل القفل.
ويقول نفس الرجل لابنته: أذبحك لو رأيتك تكلمين أحداً أو تنظرين من الشباك.. يرتكب الرجل ذنوبه فيقول عنه المجتمع انه دبور وجدع, فإذا أخطأت المرأة مرة واحدة وصمها المجتمع واعتبرت ساقطة, يتزوج الرجل ثم يسمح لنفسه بالحرية المطلقه.. في نفس الوقت الذي يطالب فيه زوجته بالوفاء المطلق. لم يزل الرجل في المجتمعات المتخلفة يعتبر أن أخطاءه حلال وأخطاء النساء هي الحرام.”
― أحمد بهجت, مذكرات صائم