Ibrahim Khalil

“নদী সন্ন্যাসী ভিক্ষুকের মত মানুষের উঠানে গিয়ে উঠেছে, চাইলেও কেউ এই আপদ বিদায় করতে পারছেনা। কিছু না নিয়ে সে ক্ষান্ত হবেনা। সন্ন্যাসীকে এক মুঠো চাল দিয়ে বিদায় করা যায়, কিন্তু নদী কী চায়? প্রাণ? ছানি পড়া বৃদ্ধের চোখের মত ঘোলা পানি, কোথাকার মাটি যেন খেয়ে এসেছে।”
― Obayed Haq, জলেশ্বরী

“Could one think so intensely of someone and not be visited?”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“But the beauty which Paresh Babu saw in her face was not that of complexion or features, but of the soul which there found its expression,—not just the pleasantness of a faultless shape but the firmness of strength, the brightness of independence,—characteristics which attract a chosen few, but repel most others.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Gora

“Nothing is more creative than death, since it is the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that “I” cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety