Quotes from The Night in Lisbon

“Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“غريبٌ حقاً أمرنا , نختار طرقاً ملتوية كي لا نظهر حقيقة مشاعرنا”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“Some day perhaps our time will be known as the age of irony. Not the witty irony of the eighteenth century, but the stupid or malignant irony of a crude age of technological progress and cultural regression.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“لأن التعاسة في الحياة أكثر بكثير من السعادة, لذا فعدم أبديتها رحمة كبيرة ”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“Обичам те много - казах аз. - Обичам теб и този миг, и лятото, което ще отмине, и този пейзаж, и раздялата, и за първи път през живота си самия мен, защото целият съм твое огледало, отразявам те и така двойно те притежавам.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“ذكرياتنا ليست تحفة عاجية معروضة في متحف محكم ضد الغبار. بل حيوان يعيش ويلتهم ويهضم.. إنها كالتنين في الأساطير, تلتهم نفسها لأنها الطريق الوحيد الذي تستطيع من خلاله الاستمرار.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“لن أراك مرة ثانية، وهذا هو الأفضل؛ فأنا حدثتك الكثير عن نفسي، الأمر الذي يمنعني من محاولة رؤيتك ثانية”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“ربما أطلق في المستقبل على عصرنا هذا اسم زمن السخرية.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“الإيمان بحدوث الأعجايب هو إحساس ملازم لهؤلاء الذين يعيشيون حالة الفرار واليأس والخوف ولولا هذا الإيمان لفد الإنسان قدرته على الاستمرار ”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“‏”‏ إذا استطعت أن تلغي الشعور بالبحث عن العدالة فعندها يسهل عليك النظر إلى الحياة وكأنها مغامرة ! ”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“Омразата е киселина, която разяжда душата - без значение дали мразим, или сме мразени.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“صمت كان يفكر بلا شك في كلمة أخيرة „ يبحث عن تأكيد حب .. عن شئ يمكن أن يحمله معه في رحلة وحدته”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“Тя седеше пред мен - изящна амазонка, гола с чаша вино в ръка, предизвикателна, неотстъпваща, хитра и смела - и аз разбрах, че по-рано изобщо не съм я познавал.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“لو أستطيع الآن استحلاف الذاكرة ألا تظن أنني سأطلب منها أن تبقي هذه الليلة في ذاكراتي كما أراها الآن .. ألا تظن أنها يجب أن تحيا في داخلي على هذا النحو مادمت حيا ؟”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“لقد خلفنا أحلامنا في كل مكان كخيوط العنكبوت المتطايرة في الخريف”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“ربما ليست الحياة التي تنتظرها، بل العدم الذي تحاول استحلافه في بعض الأحيان”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“Обичай ме! Обичай ме и не питай. Нищо. Никога.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“Ала кажете ми, щом като един човешки живот не е ценен, кое е ценното тогава?
- Нищо - отговорих аз и знаех, че беше истина и все пак не беше. - Само ние го правим ценен.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“Isterijos ir baimės apimti žmonės seka paskui lozungus, nepriklausomai nuo to, kas ir kieno vardu juos skelbia, jei tik rėksnys pažada masei prisiimti sunkią mąstymo naštą ir atsakomybę už tai, ko ji bijo, bet negali išvengti.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“أريد هيلين بعطرها و ثيابها، بالسرير و بالغروب. تمنيت لو أستطيع بسط نفسي عليها كلحاف و لو كانت لي آلاف الأيدي و آلاف الأفواه، تمنيت أن أصبح عدسة مقعرة كاملة أستطيع فيها أن أحسها أينما وجدت و من دون فراغات”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“الكراهيه هي أحد أنواع الحوامض التي تتلف النفس, ولا يفرق هذا الحامض بين كره النفس لذاتها أو كره الآخرين لها”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“Laimė - sąlyginis dalykas. Kas šitą suvokė, retai kada jaučiasi labai nelaimingas.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“Гледах го да върви по улицата надолу с куфара в ръка, окаяна фигура, образа на вечния рогоносец и на вечния любещ.
Ала от цялата галерия тъпи победители не бе ли той притежавал по-дълбоко човека, когото обичаше? И какво притежаваме в действителност. Защо е тази врява около неща, които в най-добрия случай са само взети за известно време назаем; и защо са тези брътвежи за това, дали ги притежаваме повече или по-малко, след като измамната дума „притежавам“ означава само: да прегърнем нищото?”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“الأشخاص الذين أحبهم بعمق أكثر من صورة هؤلاء المنتصرين الأغبياء؟ ماذا نمتلك في الحقيقة؟ ولماذا هذا الصمت حول أشياء لا يمكن أن تزهر إلا إذا نظرنا إليها كإعارة لبعض الوقت؟ لماذا هذه المقولات كلها حولها؟ وما أهمية النقاش حول قوة أحد في امتلاكها إذا كانت كلمة امتلاك لا تعني سوى احتضان الهواء؟”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“Wir leben im Zeitalter der Paradoxe. Zur Erhaltung des Friedens führen wir Krieg”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“Sreća, kad je doživljujemo, nikad nije potpuna. Tek u sjećanju postaje potpuna...”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“Haß ist eine Säure, die die Seele auffrisst, ganz gleich, ob man selbst hasst oder gehasst wird ”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“Sie wissen, dass Zeit ein sehr dünner Aufguß des Todes ist, der uns langsam zugefügt wird wie ein harmloses Gift. Anfangs belebt es und lässt uns sogar glauben, wir seien fast unsterblich - aber wenn es Tropfen um Tropfen, Tag für Tag um einen Tropfen und einen Tag stärker wird, verändert es sich in eine Säure, die unser Blut trübe macht und zerstört. Selbst wenn wir versuchen wollten, mit den Jahren, die wir noch haben, die Jugend zurückzukaufen, so könnten wir es nicht, die Säure der Zeit hat uns verändert, und die chemische Verbindung ist nicht mehr dieselbe, es müsste denn ein Wunder geschehen.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

“Po danu Lisabon ima nečeg naivno teatralnog što privlači i očarava — ali je noću grad iz bajke koji se sa blistavo osvijetljenim terasama spušta ka moru, kao neka nagizdana žena što se naginje ka svom tamnoplavom ljubavniku.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon

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