Quotes by Yahia Lababidi
Self-image: self-deception.
History does not repeat itself, human nature does.
Our past shadows us, sometimes hiding behind our backs and other times entering the room before us.
Snakes and ladders: the game of organized religions.
To speak of spiritual intimations is a kind of kiss-and-tell.
Self-consciousness: a weed in the garden of self awareness.
An aphorist is not one who writes in aphorisms but one who thinks in aphorisms.
If Love, as they say, is blind then, Lust must be deaf, dumb and blind.
However jeweled the mind, we also think through its defects.
Philosophies, like roadmaps, are not to be consulted whilst driving.
Nothing in the theatre engages the suicide so much as the Exit door.
Metaphysics: a propensity for metaphor, a fury for allegory
Awakening: to see and hear the old with new eyes and ears.
Ambiguity: the bastard child of Creativity and Cowardice.
An affinity exists between extremes, they are equi-distant from moderation.
The insolence of youth is the arrogance of new life encroaching.
Modernism is to literature what Existentialism is to philosophy: a state of emergency.
It is wise to know oneself, if only to add to the sum of human knowledge.
Our metaphysical eyes are expert at collapsing distances - seeing through the apparent to the infinite.
To hurry pain is to leave a classroom still in session. To prolong pain is to remain seated in a vacated classroom and miss the next lesson.
With despair, as with night-vision, the eyes soon grow accustomed to the dark.
It is one of love's curious laws that we only permit others to love us to the extent we do ourselves.
Denial is by no means a rare psychological malady; most of us live in denial of death.
As children, we played hide and seek with one another, as adults with ourselves.
Spirituality is to religion what dreams are to reality: ethereal, and ungovernable by earthly laws.
