Yet men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

- Walden, by H. D. Thoreau

لكنّ المرءَ قد وصلَ به الحال إلى أنْ يتضوّر جوعًا، ليس بسبب حاجتِه لما هو ضروريٌ في الحياة، بل بسبب رغبَتِه بما هو كمالي.

- والْدِن، لـِ هنري ديفيد ثورو

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How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: ‘This is really you, this is no longer outer shell.’

— Untimely Meditations

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier, simpler.

- The Joyful Wisdom

But thus I counsel you my friends: mistrust all in whom the drive to punish is strong!

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

I think in different voices. Sometimes, I just can't find the fucking voice. My thoughts become mute.

Maybe I should think in sign language

You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are hunting for, that is a motif for your aimless fantasy.

What you are drawn to is the first rapture of love. You know how to drown and hide yourself in a dreamy, love-intoxicated clairvoyance. All around yourself you spin the finest spider’s web and then lie in wait. But you are not a child, not a waking consciousness, and the look in your eye means something else; but for you that is enough.

To steal your way into people, that’s where you have a truly great gift, I do not deny it, or at the same time that it is a proper entertainment to hear you recount the results and to witness your uncontained joy every time you can bring some really fresh observation to the  market. But frankly your psychological interest lacks seriousness and is more like hypochondriacal curiosity.

You who always pride yourself on being an observateur must, in return, put up with becoming an object of observation. Ah, you are a strange fellow, one moment a child, the next an old man; one moment you are thinking most earnestly about the most important scholarly problems, how you will devote your life to them, and the next you are a lovesick fool. But you are a long way from marriage.

- Either/Or, by Soren Kierkegaard

She sat opposite a mirror in which you could see her. She cast a shy glance at it without guessing that your eye had already taken up residence there; she blushed when your eye met hers. Things like that you preserve as accurately as possible and register just as quickly, just half a minute even in the worst weather, as you know.

- Adventure time

Mike and the pimento sandwich, again

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German: Wir aber wollen die Dichter unseres Lebens sein, und im kleinsten und alltäglichsten zuerst

English: We want to be the poets of our life – first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

- The Joyful Wisdom

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عندما كتبَ الجاحظ كتابه (البيان والتبيين) في البلاغة والأدب، وضع به "باب البيان" وبعده "باب الصمت،" فكأنه يقول أنّ الصمت والسكوت أحيانًا أبلَغ من كُلِّ ما يمكن أنْ يُقال، وأنّ "سياسةَ البلاغة أشدُّ مِن البلاغة." ومَن لا يتعلّم السكوت لا يعرِف البلاغةَ ولا البيان.