Zeeshan Ali Durrani > Zeeshan's Quotes

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I asked god for a bike, but i know god doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Mama! mama! I am ill
Call the doctor to get me a pill
Doctor! Doctor! shall I die
Yes my child, but so shall I”
― Conrad Fischer MD

“People who doesn't know the whole story may end up believing all those LIES but God knows the TRUTH.”
― Verliza Gajeles

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“It's sad when everyone knows you, but no one knows you.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?”
― Julie Delpy, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays

“I loved this about him. No matter how many times I had asked, he answered as if it were the first time.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“The breeze was too sweet, and the sun too warm for a thought like that to be spoken.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“I'll tell you a secret.
Something they don't teach you in your temple.
The Gods envy us.
They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed.
You will never be lovelier than you are now.
We will never be here again.”
― David Benioff

“Why does it take a life ending to learn how to cherish each day? Why must we wait until we run out of time to start to accomplish all that we dreamed, when once we had all the time in the world? Why don’t we look at the person we love the most like it’s the last time we will ever see them? Because if we did, life would be so vibrant. Life would be so truly and completely lived.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“how cruel i was to myself. giving you credit for my warmth simply because you had felt it. thinking it was you who gave me strength. wit. beauty. simply because you recognized it. as if i was already not those things before i met you. as if i did not remain all these once you left.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“I'm always scared that every feeling is going to be permanent.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“To belittle, you have to be little.”
― Kahill Gibran, The Prophet

“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love.”
― Khalil Gibran

“You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.
This is but half the truth.
You are also as strong as your strongest link.
To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam.
To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.
Aye, you are like an ocean,
And though heavy-grounded ships await the tide upon your shores, yet, even like an ocean, you cannot hasten your tides.
And like the seasons you are also,
And though in your winter you deny your spring,
Yet spring, reposing within you, smiles in her drowsiness and is not offended.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean”
― Will Durant

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.”
― Che Guevara

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus