Bassem Youssef Quotes

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

Schultz: You must speak.
Jewish barber: I can't.
Schultz: It's our only hope.

Much has been written of love turning to hatred, of the heart growing cold with the death of love. It is a remarkable process. It is far more terrible than anything I have ever read about it, more terrible than anything I will ever be able to say.

I will probably die singing.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

I have the wisdom of one condemned to death:
I own nothing for anything to own me

I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

I have never thought there was much to be said in favor of dragging on long after all one's friends were dead.

Things That Lose by Being Painted
Pinks, cherry blossoms, yellow roses. Men or women who are praised in romances as being beautiful.Things That Gain by Being Painted
Pines. Autumn fields. Mountain villages and paths. Cranes and deer. A very cold winter scene; an unspeakably hot summer scene. (p. 138)

It was as though some stubborn god spent their time in an immutable and absurd balancing act between life and death, prosperity and poverty.

If Socrates died, then either he died when he was living, or when he was dead. But he couldn't have died when he was living, for he was not dead when he was living. But he couldn't have died when he was dead, for when he was dead he had already died. Therefore, Socrates never died.

From the time they turned one they were tossed from the balconies of the kitchens, first with life preserves so they would lose their fear of the water, and then without life preservers so they would lose their respect for death.

I know how it's gonna be when I die. It's going to be no noise, you ain't going to hear people screaming. I'mma fade out.

In a way, campaigning with The Hepatitis C Trust is business as usual. I've always felt that activism is my rent for living on this planet.

I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self.