Manahil Arif > Manahil's Quotes

“there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.

people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.

people just are not good to each other
one on one.

the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.

we are afraid.

our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.

it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.

or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone

untouched
unspoken to

watering a plant.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“No nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.”
― disney

“Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
― Frida Kahlo

“And perhaps some will never understand,
It is mostly the farewells that unite us, and last in our memory forever,
Even more than the first meeting.”
― Mimi Novic, Guidebook To Your Heart

“Farewell - though it sounds very tragic - is sometimes the best exit from the hell of unhappiness!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If no one has called you back when you left a place, then your decision to leave that place was precisely true!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When you are leaving someone, leave like the sun leaves the earth with a magnificent elegance!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”
― Che Guevara

“It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand...”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata