Zunaed

“এইভাবে সবকিছু একদিন গল্প হয়ে যায়।
জামার পকেটে একটা ফিতে, ফিতেয় চুলের গন্ধ, যে গন্ধে অনেক দুঃখ, যে দুঃখে অনেক ভালবাসা, যে ভালবাসায় অনেক ছেলেবেলা..”
― Mahmudul Haque, কালো বরফ

“আমি সব দেবতারে ছেড়ে
আমার প্রাণের কাছে চলে আসি,
বলি আমি এই হৃদয়েরে -
সে কেন জলের মত ঘুরে ঘুরে একা কথা কয়?”
― Jibanananda Das

“When a judge walks into the room, and everybody stands up, you’re not standing up to that guy, you’re standing up to the robe that he’s wearing and the role that he’s going to play. What makes him worthy of that role is his integrity, as a representative of the principles of that role, and not some group of prejudices of his own. So what you’re standing up to is a mythological character. I imagine some kings and queens are the most stupid, absurd, banal people you could run into, probably interested only in horses and women, you know. But you’re not responding to them as personalities, you’re responding to them in their mythological roles. When someone becomes a judge, or President of the United States, the man is no longer that man, he’s the representative of an eternal office; he has to sacrifice his personal desires and even life possibilities to the role that he now signifies.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“I will participate in the game. It is a wonderful, wonderful opera – except that it hurts.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth