“She was the embodiment of all my distant, painful memories among which I sought what I was deprived of, what belonged to me but somehow I was denied. Was I deprived forever?”
-Sadeq Hedayat, The Blind Owl
In this mean world of wretchedness and misery I thought that for once a ray of sunlight had broken upon my life. Alas, it was not sunlight but a passing gleam, a falling star, which flashed upon me, in the form of a woman – or of an angel. In its light,in the course of a second, of a single moment, I beheld all the wretchedness of my existence and apprehended the glory and splendor of the star. After, that brightness disappeared again in the whirlpool of darkness in which it was bound inevitably to disappear. I was unable to retain that passing gleam.It is three months – no, it is two months and four days – sinceI lost her from sight but the memory of those magic eyes, of the fatal radiance of those eyes, has remained with me at all times. How can I forget her, who is so intimately bound up with my own existence?
Sadeq Hedayat, Blind Owl
“Death is the only motivation in life left for me.”
-Sadeq Hedayat
In this base world, full of poverty and misery, for the first time I thought a ray of sunshine had shone on my life. But alas, it was not a sunbeam, rather it was only a transient beam, a shooting star, which appeared to me in the likeness of a woman or an angel.
Sadeq Hedayat
“Since I have disconnected myself from other people, I have started to know myself better.”
-Sadeq Hedayat
“I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.”
-Sadeq Hedayat
If there was no death, everybody would wish it.
Sadeq Hedayat
Human, due to his arrogance assumes that all animals have been created for him and he is justified in killing and eating them.
Sadeq Hedayat
