Marina

[mehreenkhan]

When Kafka said “I was living off your gaze” and when Faiz said “lut rahi hai meri mata-e-niyaz, kaash vo is taraf nazar kar de”

[eslam28-deactivated20150719]

[arab-quotes]

“O God, please bring relief to all of those who’re suffering in their lives.”

[dastur-e-ishq]

Muddaton kay baad us ne aaj mujh se koi gila kia, mansab-e-dilbari pe kya mujh ko bahal kar diya.

mansab-e-dilbarii • मंसब-ए-दिलबरी منصب دلبری “the stage of loving”

[bompstablecat]

[dastur-e-ishq]

"The slow-rolling night must have a shore somewhere

The boat of the afflicted heart's grieving will drop anchor somewhere."

-Faiz Ahmed Faiz

[mehreenkhan]

Aaj ek aur baras bit gaya us ke baghair // Jis ke hote hue hote the zamane mere.

hum ne dekha hi na thaa, mausam e hijraan jaanan

(I never imagined that I will face a long season of separation from you, my beloved)

Ahmad Faraz

[thawabuponthawab]

[aleydal-deactivated20240727]

‏سيصل العالم إلى زمن يمنع فيه الأذكياء من التفكير حتى لا يسيئوا إلى الحمقى.

“The world will reach a time when intelligent people will be prevented from thinking so that they don't offend fools.”

[nowinexile]

خبئي الدمع للعيد ..فلن نبكي سوى من الفرح

“Hide the tears, for we will cry only out of happiness”  - Mahmoud Darwish

(…-محمود درويش (1941

[mehreenkhan]

When Parveen Shakir said “ab to is raah se woh shakhs guzarta bhi nahin, ab kis umeed pe darvaze se jhanke koi” and when Faiz said “na jane kis liye umeed waar baitha hun, ek aisi raah pe jo teri rahguzar bhi nahin”

[khaanahbadoshiyaan]

ہر نفس عمر گزشتہ کی ہے میت فانیؔ

Every breathe taken is the funeral of the past, Fani

زندگی نام ہے مر مر کے جئے جانے کا

That which is called ‘life’, is dying over and over - in order to live

- Fani Badayuni (فانی بدایون)

[perfectfeelings]

“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”

— Charlie Chaplin in a letter to his daughter, Geraldine

[marina99]

سوداؔ جو بے خبر ہے وہی یاں کرے ہے عیش

مشکل بہت ہے ان کو جو رکھتے ہیں آگہی

-سوداؔ

[dastur-e-ishq]

ہمت التجا نہیں باقی، ضبط کا حوصلہ نہیں باقی

himmat-e-iltijā nahīñ baaqī zabt kā hausla nahīñ baaqī

اک تری دید چھن گئی مجھ سے، ورنہ دنیا میں کیا نہیں باقی

ik tirī deed chhin ga.ī mujh se varna duniyā meñ kyā nahīñ baaqī

[metamorphesque]

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

[metamorphesque]

luna adriana / jane austen / leo tolstoy / haruki murakami / dejan stojanovic / haruki murakami

[metamorphesque]

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra