Sadab Muntasir > Sadab's Quotes

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Men are cruel, but Man is kind. ”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
― John Lennon

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
― Malcolm X

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Malcolm X

“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
― Malcolm X

“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”
― Malcolm X

“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
― Malcolm X

“If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. ”
― Malcolm X

“True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.”
― Malcolm X

“By any means necessary.”
― Malcolm X

“The present is the only things that has no end.”
― Erwin Schrödinger

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“ইউরোপে cold blooded খুন হয়, ভারতবর্ষে কোল্ড-ব্লাডেড্ বিয়ে হয়।”
― Syed Mujtaba Ali, চাচা কাহিনী

“রাজা যায়, রাজা আসে। প্রজাও যায়, নতুন প্রজা আসে। কিছুই টিকে থাকে না। ক্ষুধার্ত সময় সবকিছু গিলে ফেলে, তবে গল্প গিলতে পারে না। গল্প থেকে যায়।”
― Humayun Ahmed, বাদশাহ নামদার

“শত্রুর মিলনে মনে অতি কষ্ট হয়
বন্ধুর বিচ্ছেদে কষ্ট হয় সাতিশয়।
উভয়েই বহু কষ্ট দেয় যদি মনে
শত্রু মিত্রে কিবা ভেদ তবে এ ভুবনে?”
― Syed Mujtaba Ali, শবনম

“দোস্ত!
তুমহারী রোটি, হমারা গোস্ত!”
― Syed Mujtaba Ali, দেশে বিদেশে

“জর্মন ভাষাতেই প্রবাদ আছে, ওষুধ খেলে সর্দি সারে সাত দিনে, না খেলে এক সপ্তায়।”
― Syed Mujtaba Ali, চাচা কাহিনী

“হাজার যোজন নিচে নামিয়া আকাশের ঐ তারা
গোস্পদে হ'ল প্রতিবিম্বিত ; তাই হল মানহারা?”
― Syed Mujtaba Ali, শবনম

“কেহ বিশ্বাস করে, কেহ করে না। যে বিশ্বাস করে সেও সত্য-মিথ্যা যাচাই করে না, যে অবিশ্বাস করে সেও না। বিশ্বাস-অবিশ্বাসের প্রশ্নটা নির্ভর করে মানুষের খুশির উপর।”
― Manik Bandopadhyay, পুতুলনাচের ইতিকথা