Lemon Twist Quotes

“My life was falling somewhere between mental anguish and boredom. I tended to resist any kind of joy, even when I longed to live a more exciting life. I couldn’t make even small or simple changes, and I wasn’t able to shift my thinking.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“I don’t see my father’s death as an absence, rather as a different existence.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“Today, I have a serene look on death, and without particular religious feelings, I have an absolute conviction that we continue to live after our death, in another indeterminable metamorphose, just like a butterfly that comes out of its cocoon.
But we also live on in the memory of those who remain.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“The memories we have for those who left are our ultimate consolation.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“I just wanted to stay away from everyone as much as possible. Like a hedgehog rolling into a ball when it’s threatened. But sometimes I wished everything was different.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“Life has no eyes, no ears. Cursing it would be an unnecessary act.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“I was haunted by a painful desire for you, like the thirst of a voyageur in the desert. My feelings burst. Regret panged within me.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“I want a complete transformation. I need a new identity. I yearn for a chance to let go of all fear, the negative self-image, the critical thoughts. I want to give up my affliction, shed the things I regret and the outrage at past events, just as a dog shakes water off after a swim.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“If anything gives meaning to our lives, rich or poor, yesterday or today, here or elsewhere, it is affection. Without it, every bit of philosophical or scientific research will leave us in an existential emptiness. Life is viable because someone, even just once, looked at us with love.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“I was haunted by a painful desire for her, like the thirst of a voyageur in the desert. My feelings burst. Regret panged within me.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“I’d thought that gazing at her would satisfy my raging fire but instead I was aching all over.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“The moments of darkness are melancholic but the soft glow of a candle is compassionate.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“Now, certain things are gone forever—beautiful and ugly things. But the world has not ended yet, and I’ve chosen to look back on the past without longing, without regret, without hate.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“The water run-off is like the race of time toward death.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“Sometimes I’d lose myself in daydreams. I’d build up a dream little by little, assemble the pieces of every scene; I’d draw it, then correct it. I could lose myself for hours to live an alternative reality where everything was simple and easy to reach.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“Life is logical. It flows impassively like a river. It’s up to man to make sure his canoe doesn’t take on water, and adjust his paddles when the stream picks up speed at the edge of the waterfall.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“No matter how death may inch over me, there will always be an unconquerable place inside my being that is beyond the perception of the physical senses—a zest that dampens the bitterness of mortality, that garnishes existence with little extra flavour.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist