‘‘إنّ كانت لديك القُدرة على الحُب حقًا؛ حبّ نفسك أولًا.’’ “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” ‘‘سنموتُ جميعًا، كُلنا جميعًا، يا له مِن سيرك! وهذا السبب وحده كافيٌ لأنّ نُحبّ بعضنا البعض؛ لكنَّ هذا لم يحدث. لقد دمرتنا وسطَّحتنا التفاهات، والتهمنا الهراء.’’ “We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” ‘‘أنا لا أكره الناس، أنا فقط أشعر أفضل عندما لا يكونوا حولي.’’ “I don't hate people... I just feel better when they're not around.” ‘‘يجب أنّ تموت عدة مرّات قبل أن أنّ تحيا حقًا.’’ “ You have to die a few times before you can really live .” ‘‘المُهم فعلًا هو كيف ستمشي على الجمر كما يجب.’’ “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” ’’حُبٌّ كهذا كان كالمرضِ العضال، مرضٌ لا تشفى مِنه كُليًّا أبدًا.’’ “A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely ...
جميل.
ردحذفYou have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.
ردحذف“What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself.”
- Blaise Pascal, Pensées VII(425)