Nema Al-Araby Quotes

I'd rather let you cover all my roads with thorns than with dead roses.

— Nema Al-Araby

Not everyone talks in words.

— Nema Al-Araby

“Questions that will free you might have answers that will imprison you again.”

— Nema Al-Araby

“I'm an alien in my own world, a writer without words, a musician without a piano, a magician without a wand. I am fooled by infinite words that rush in my blood, yet imprisoned by the very thoughts of silence. I'm a gray green fallow leaf on trees and abandoned on the streets, a never-ending spring season and an eternal autumn. I'm the golden of the sun and the silver of the moon, the fog of dawn and the amber of dusk. I'm the white and the red flag , the obedient and the rebel. I am the coward in the brave, and the child in the man. I am, but a writer.”

— Nema Al-Araby

“At some point in reading, we realize we have to read not just the books that we'd enjoy, but the books that move us, touch us, those that break us and hurt us, those which remind us that we will always be the ignorant of this life. We have to read the books that make us so little, make us a speck of dust or a grain of sand in a galaxy, until we feed our minds with all the knowledge we need, which is infinite in itself.”

— Nema Al-Araby

“Let's talk about nothing. Look me in the eyes. I'll swim into yours. And we'll just smile. Enough for the whole world to crash behind us.”

— Nema Al-Araby

“Make sure you don't carry the burden of the whole world on your shoulders, just in case someone needed them to cry.”

— Nema Al-Araby

“And the cobwebs of time
would surrender,
dormant, so that the rainbows
of new eras can emerge
Despite the hollowness
of you.”

— Nema Al-Araby

If you observe the pace of my breaths, you won't need to listen to my words.

— Nema Al-Araby

Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings.

— Nema Al-Araby

“The possibility of truth has become a delusion to those who made their own disguise the truth.”

— Nema Al-Araby

“Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a love-hate relationship with words.”

— Nema Al-Araby

“Is it crazy to say that I sometimes don't understand what I write but I write it anyway, because maybe someone, somewhere, somehow, would feel what I didn't?”

— Nema Al-Araby

“Ever, could I or could I not count the shadows of your being?”

— Nema Al-Araby

“Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.”

— Nema Al-Araby

“Write when you least feel like it,
Because that's when you write best.”

— Nema Al-Araby

“It's ridiculous to think that taking out words will heal hearts,
because a palm-sized box is just not enough for the anger of this world.”

— Nema Al-Araby

“Please don't question the insane glares
Just give me today,
And tomorrow,
Tomorrow
we will matter.”

— Nema Al-Araby

“Silence always used to guide
A truth that could never be denied”

— Nema Al-Araby

“A deeper thought on the surface is exactly the paradox we need.”

— Nema Al-Araby

“You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper.”

— Nema Al-Araby

“Hear the heartbeats of a nation
silenced together on the impatient
winds of change,
And deafen your ears to the words of
one. Melodized by emancipation..
Then open your eyes,
open your eyes for me:
Darling, freedom to you is
a freedom to none.”

— Nema Al-Araby

I'd rather be poor to my bones than be rich with your money, that is like a trigger, ready to be pulled in my face.

— Nema Al-Araby