عبد الله

“Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once these expressions put in an appearance, no matter how solemn the place, the silent cathedrals of melancholy crumble, leaving nothing but an impression of fatuousness. It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“نفسي الفداء لكل منتصر .. حزين
يحمي بشبرٍ تحت كعبيه اتزان الأرض ..

معنى العدل في الدنيا على إطلاقه
يحمي البرايا أجمعين
حتى مماليك البلاد القاعدين ..

والحرب واعظة تنادينا..

لقد سلم المقاتل
والذين بدورهم قتلوا

نعم هذا قضاء الله لكن ..

ربما سلموا إذا كان الجميع مقاتلين !”
― تميم البرغوثي