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“أن نكون ودودين مع مَنْ يكرهوننا، وقساةً
مع مَنْ يحبّونَنا - تلك هي دُونيّة المُتعالي،
وغطرسة الوضيع!

أيها الماضي! لا تغيِّرنا... كلما ابتعدنا عنك!

أيها المستقبل: لا تسألنا: مَنْ أنتم؟
وماذا تريدون مني؟ فنحن أيضاً لا نعرف.

أَيها الحاضر! تحمَّلنا قليلاً، فلسنا سوى
عابري سبيلٍ ثقلاءِ الظل”
― محمود درويش

“حقي في ممارسة اليأس لا يقل عن حقكَ في اقتراف الأمل ، كلٌّ له نعيمه. وقد وجدتُ في اليأس سعادتي”
― فيصل الحبيني

“Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.”
― Morrissey

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
― David Foster Wallace