Asadullah Quotes & Sayings

Breath was everything. When nothing else could be done: one could breathe and shape and infuse that breath with strength and purpose. — Karen Marie Moning

Oh, Lord, it is not the sins I have committed that I regret, but those which I have had no opportunity to commit — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute. — Jonathan Davis

We don't live in the old world. But I don't want everyone to know what I've done. We all know every kind of example we could throw out there. The world we see online is very spiteful, we all know about people who have had bad stories thrown at them. If we were more generous I might be more happy about the reputation economy. — Andrew Keen

Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

I've been readen th Bible an a hunten God fer a long while-off an on- but it ain't so easy as picken up a nickel off the floor. — Harriette Simpson Arnow

I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the eternal return. Sometimes I think that being on tour year after year is an eternal return; you play a certain club in Copenhagen and then ten years later you are back again, traveling the same roads year after year. — Dean Wareham

Love demands patience, desire is restless; What color shall I paint the heart, until you savage it? You shall not ignore me when the time comes, I know, but I may turn to dust before the news reaches you. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Love cannot be seeded into someone. It is a fire that is difficult to kindle but once it takes on, it is equally difficult to extinguish. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

For how tiny the world,
This ant's egg-and the sky! — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is not. — Nahiyan Bin Asadullah

Being attractive should have nothing to do with being accepted. It is what is inside a person that matters, — Julie Garwood

Most of us spend our lives convinced that there's something missing: "If only I had a bigger barbecue, more money, a bigger car, a different wife, a different ... If only I could upgrade somehow, then I would be okay." — Arjuna Ardagh

If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one. — Tom Wilson

The world is a playground -Indian — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

In embracing your difficulties is liberation. — Nahiyan Bin Asadullah

I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book. — Ian Fleming

In Paradise it is true that I shall drink at dawn the pure wine mentioned in the Koran, but where in Paradise are the long walks with intoxicated friends in the night, or the drunken crowds shouting merrily? Where shall I find there the intoxication of Monsoon clouds? Where there is no Autumn how can Spring exist? If the beautiful houris are always there, where will be the sadness of a separation and the joy of union? Where shall we find there a girl who flees away when we would kiss her? — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

When nothing was, then God was there,
Had nothing been God would have been;
My being has defeated me,
Had I not been, what would have been. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy. — Jeff Foxworthy

I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib — Khushwant Singh

The world is no more than the Beloved's face. And the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Love knows no difference between life and death
The one who gives you a reason to live is also the one who takes your breath away — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

In the deadly sweep Of every wave, A thousand dangers lie in wait. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Whereas it is difficult for everything to work out easily, A man cannot even afford to be a human — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Babe Paley simply never made an empty gesture, and here she was, assembling a parade of them. But her feet, her hands, her mind, her heart, were all restless. Truman. — Melanie Benjamin

He gave me heaven and earth, and assumed I'd be satisfied; Actually I was too embarrassed to argue. The spiritual seekers are tired, two or three at each stage of the path. The rest who have given up never knew your address at all. There are so many in this gathering who wish the candle well. But if the being of the candle is melting, what can the sorrow-sharers do? — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

I'm learning love does not express itself the way I thought it would. — Katie Kiesler

For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

And were you able to find Him?" I inquired.
A shadow crossed his face as the dervish noded and said.
"Indeed, He was with me all along. — Elif Shafak

If you look at the people on this train, you will see that they are dressed much alike. The train itself is a standard product, and by means of it we travel from town to town selling products which are messengers of internationalism. — Upton Sinclair

If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib