Hedayat Sadegh Quotes

#1. I have finally learned that I must remain silent as much as possible. I must always keep my thoughts to myself.

Sadegh Hedayat

#2. I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.

Sadegh Hedayat

#3. There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.

Sadegh Hedayat

#4. In life there are certain sores that, like a canker, gnaw at the soul in solitude and diminish it.

Sadegh Hedayat

#5. I've always been a religious guy, but not overly religious. I've always believed in God and Jesus. I pray.

Kevin Sorbo

#6. We are the children of death and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life.

Sadegh Hedayat

#7. Amazing what humans could do to one another when their survival instinct kicked in.

Jason M. Hough

#8. I thought to myself: if it's true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.

Sadegh Hedayat

#9. The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.

Sadegh Hedayat

#10. [Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.

Sadegh Hedayat

#11. My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

Robert Winston

#12. I thought I was going to the NBA, but God knows, I'm not tall enough. I don't know what I was thinking.

Tequan Richmond

#13. My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.

Sadegh Hedayat

#14. Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing!

Sadegh Hedayat

#15. Imagination is the first step to escapism....

Sultry Summers

#16. A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.

William Stafford

#17. The person that I had been existed no longer. If I had been able to conjure him up and speak to him he would not have listened to me and, if he had, would not have understood what I said. He was like someone whom I had known once, but he was no part of me.

Sadegh Hedayat

#18. A story is only an outlet for frustrated aspirations, for aspirations which the story-teller conceives in accordance with a limited stock of spiritual resources inherited from previous generations.

Sadegh Hedayat

#19. Not his penetrating intellect, or his talents with the Force, or his unmatched skills with a lightsaber.
-Matthew Stover on Mace Windu

Matthew Woodring Stover

#20. Only death does not lie.

Sadegh Hedayat

#21. If there was no death, everyone would wish for it.

Sadegh Hedayat

#22. In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.

Sadegh Hedayat