Desire Quote by Amin Maalouf Download Open image ““...it's better to wake up amid the pangs of desire than amid those of remorse.”” — Amin Maalouf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Love Regret Remorse
“Remorse is a heavy burden, but in its weight, it has great power to awaken men's souls.” — R. William Bennett Copy Share Image
“I decided that if I didn't allow myself to fall asleep, then I wouldn't have to wake up again and despair.” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“I want to feel the approach of sleep as if it were a promise of life, not rest.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Contemplation, rather than action; that seemed to be my lot in life, and I was ashamed of it even as I craved it.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Better to reach your deathbed with regrets for things done rather than remorses for things never tried.” — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
“There is no greater ache than this: guilt and regret in equal measure.” — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“She reeks of sadness, of indecision and guilt. And desire, of course. It's even stronger than yours.” — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“...at that time of all times for yearning and longing, just before the sharp senses lose their outlines in sleep.” — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“…you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.” — Jodee Blanco Copy Share Image
“Guilt is not a healthy emotion. It rots you from the inside out, turns you bitter.” — Blair Richmond Copy Share Image
“For some, guilt is a stronger prison than love or happiness.” — Death-T.A. Chase Pestilence Copy Share Image
“Yes indeed, both Muslim and Jewish!I, her father, am Muslim, at least on paper; her mother is Jewish, at least in theory. With us,… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow. — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Can we reconcile indefinitely these two imperatives: the desire to preserve every individual's special identity and the need for Europeans to be able to… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“A community begins to fall apart the moment it agrees to abandon the weakest of its members.” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Til gjengjeld er det store sjanser for at ethvert amerikansk valg heretter vil bli et verdensomspennende psykordrama.” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Someone other than I might have used the word “roots”. It is not part of my vocabulary. I don’t like the word, and I… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“On les écouta, on compatit, on s'indigna, on promit, mais on ne bougea pas une lance” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Clawing its way towards us, the ugliness of the world tore away our hiding-place.” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
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Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
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