Sadegh Hedayat

The Blind Owl

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  • raniahas quoted9 months ago
    I wished that I could run away from myself.
  • raniahas quoted9 months ago
    In the fine rain which softened the intensity of the colours and the clarity of the outlines I experienced a sense of liberation and tranquillity.
  • raniahas quoted9 months ago
    It had become a habit with me to go out for a walk every day just before sunset.
  • raniahas quoted9 months ago
    My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself
  • Nikolai C.has quoted3 years ago
    There are people whose death agonies begin at the age of twenty, while others die only at the very end, calmly and peacefully, like a lamp in which all the oil has been consumed.
  • Nikolai C.has quoted3 years ago
    The thought of an afterlife frightened and fatigued me. No, I had no desire to see all these loathsome worlds peopled with repulsive faces. Was God such a parvenu that He insisted on my looking over His collection of worlds
  • Nikolai C.has quoted3 years ago
    IT WAS ALWAYS MY OPINION THAT THE BEST COURSE A man could take in life was to remain silent; that one could not do better than withdraw into solitude like the bittern which spreads its wings beside some lonely lake.
  • Nikolai C.has quoted3 years ago
    She wore on her lips a vague, involuntary smile as though she was thinking of someone who was absent.
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