Sadegh Hedayat Quotes

#1. Kell had a strange feeling about the girl, but he pushed it aside.

V.E Schwab

#2. I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.

William Monahan

#3. The most difficult part in executing a successful breakout is handling pressure from the opposition and completing a good first pass.

Ryan Walter

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

Sadegh Hedayat

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

Sadegh Hedayat

#6. My mind is in the gutter so often, I have an assigned parking spot.

Duncan Spencer

#7. A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.

H.L. Mencken

#8. Only death does not lie.

Sadegh Hedayat

#9. (Lucy to Isabeau)"
"Cool." She tilted her head. "You don't look crazy."
"You're like a runaway train," Logan groaned at her. "Can't you shut her up?" he asked his brother pleadingly.
"How?" Nicholas said somewhat helplessly.
"Kiss her, you idiot.

Alyxandra Harvey

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Sadegh Hedayat

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

Sadegh Hedayat

#15. You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.

Norma McCorvey

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

Sadegh Hedayat

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Walter Savage Landor

#20. You can attain your highest potential.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Sadegh Hedayat

#22. Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor exacted of right by an employer possessed of a contract for life, made out in his favor.

Germaine Greer

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

Sadegh Hedayat

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

Sadegh Hedayat

#25. 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