Hard Hitting Quotes

Huda Fatima
Sep 30, 2020
3 min read

You're reading. You come across a specific line/paragraph which hits you. You stop and reread the line. And then you read it again. Then you get the urge to read it aloud to someone. To highlight it. To take a picture of it and post it on your socials so that others can read it too. You think about it so much, that you almost memorize it. These quotes hit you hard. They leave a dent in your heart and mind, your soul. Because they make so much sense that it feels unreal. The unheard feelings buried deep in your heart are described so nicely in that one line, that it almost feels like a burden has been lifted.

Here are ten quotes which made me feel the same way:

1. "Do you ever wonder, how we decide what's crazy and what isn't? There's so much crazy stuff in the world - everything's a mess most of the time - but then people who can't handle it are called mental and have films made about them... But what if they're just reacting to the weirdness of the universe? Isn't it more weird to just think everything's okay, when it clearly isn't?"

Excerpt from Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne

2. "Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be grateful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that he has been denied."

Excerpt from The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak

3. "Patience does not mean to endure passively. It means to look at the end of a process. What does tolerance mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night, and see the dawn. Impatience means to be shortsighted as not to be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full."

Excerpt from The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak

4. “For you, a thousand times over”

Excerpt from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

5. "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

Excerpt from To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

6. "You must be the judge of your own happiness."

Excerpt from Emma by Jane Austen

7. "I was crying for all of us. There's so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it. I'm terrified of myself - "

Excerpt from The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

8. "Most people aren't alive, you know, not really - sleepwalking their way through life."

Excerpt from The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

9. "Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a women. Always. You remember that, Mariam."

Excerpt from A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini