Abdullah Al Mahmud

“তোমাকে যখন দেখি, তার
চেয়ে বেশি দেখি
যখন দেখি না।
চড়ুই পাখিরা জানে
আমি কার প্রতিক্ষায় বসে আছি-
তুমি ব্যস্ত, তুমি একা, তুমি অন্তরাল ভালোবাসো!
সন্ন্যাসীর মতো হাহাকার করে উঠি-
দেখা দাও, দেখা দাও,
পরমুহূর্তেই ফের চোখ মুছি।
হেসে বলি,
তুমি যেখানেই যাও, আমি সঙ্গে আছি!”
― Sunil Gangopadhyay

“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”
― Lilla Watson

“You are both stars, don’t forget.
When the stars exploded billions of
years ago, they formed everything
that is this world. The moon, the
trees, everything we know is
stardust. So don’t forget. You
are stardust.
- ROSE PEDDLER”
― Richard Linklater, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays

“A man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something that he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbour with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he is happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays