Quotes by Pakistani Authors

They [terrorists] can’t claim that their suicide bombings are martyrdom operations and that they become the heroes of the Muslim Ummah [global brotherhood]. No, they become heroes of hellfire, and they are leading towards hellfire.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
People will give away almost anything in charity, but their unadulterated attention must be earned
Faisal Khosa
Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered.
Raheel Farooq
Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we, the civilians, who decide these issues and it is your duty to carry out these tasks with which you are entrusted.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.
Raheel Farooq
Once as Nadia sat on the steps of a building reading the news on her phone across the street from a detachment of troops and a tank, she thought she saw online a photograph of herself sitting on the steps of a building reading the news on her phone across the street from a detachment of troops and a tank, and she was startled and wondered how this could be. How she could both read this news and be this news. And how the newspaper could have published this instantaneously, and she looked about for a photographer, and she had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she were from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.
Mohsin Hamid
The world won't get more or less terrible if we're indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate.
Kamila Shamsie
But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as normal.
Malala Yousafzai
In the nights though, I couldn't help but weave the golden cloth of my dreams. Each stitch from heart to thought, and thought to heart, was painful to bear, even if it was joyous at times. Because each thread was fraught with the fears of being broken midway, lost and never found again.
Faiqa Mansab
Monetary policy does not work like a scalpel but more like a sledgehammer.
Liaquat Ahamed
Life is not about the people who act true to your face, It's about the people who remain true behind your back.
Moosa Rahat
We match each other stroke for stroke until I get a hit on her right arm. She tries to switch sword arms, but I jab my scim at her wrist faster than she can parry. Her scim goes flying, and I tackle her. Her white-blonde hair tumbles free of her bun.“Surrender!” I pin her down at the wrists, but she trashes and rips one arm free, scrabbling for a dagger at her waist. Steel stabs at my ribs, and seconds later, I am on my back with a blade at my throat.“Ha!” She leans down, her hair falling around us like a shimmering silver curtain.
Sabaa Tahir
It's not that people don't know when they'll die. It's that they don't seem to know they'll die.
Raheel Farooq
Ask and visualize for what your intuition has guided you for because visualization is the strongest tool for manifestation.
Hina Hashmi
Materialize what you want with cooperation of other people not by depriving them.
Hina Hashmi
Doubt is one of the most dangerous negative vibrations and can ruin the materialization process.
Hina Hashmi
When you ask, feel and believe- you receive. You hold everything in your consciousness. There is an unlimited supply of ideas waiting for you to tap into and to bring forth.
Hina Hashmi
Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses
Kamila Shamsie
I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age: an almost childlike twenty-two, rather than that permanent middle-age that attaches itself to the man who lives alone and supports himself by wearing a suit in a city not of his birth.
Mohsin Hamid
This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.
Tariq Ali
God’s love supersedes all religions and it is the core of all religions.
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
Detachment is a basic requirement for seeking enlightenment. Anyone or anything we are attached to has power to manipulate us although we all have freedom to choose.
Hina Hashmi
Guys who kiss girls on the forehead are the sweetest and the best gentlemen you can ever have.
Moosa Rahat
If becoming "religious" has made you more judgmental, rude, harsh, a backbiter, you need to check if you are worshiping God or your ego.
Moosa Rahat
The sense of alienation that inspires wonder, awe and fear in us is enough of a proof that life does not belong to the planet Earth.
Raheel Farooq
Reasonable things would never bring you joy as much as unreasonable ones do.
Zainab T. Khan
Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet.
Mohsin Hamid
Taking the path of least resistance is always helpful and peaceful, which is always in line with your life’s purpose. If your current work area is different than your purpose then you will face extra challenges.
Hina Hashmi
Expect the best, prepare for the worst.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.
Raheel Farooq
For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the introduction to some epic science-fiction film, then shining brightly on that list would be the fact that we exist in a financial universe that is subject to massive gravitational pulls from states. States tug at us. States bend us. And, tirelessly, states seek to determine our orbits.
Mohsin Hamid
Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications.
Raheel Farooq
The problem with human race is not that it errs, but that it does so repetitively.
Raheel Farooq
One's interest or need does not annul other's right.
Al-Hafiz B.A. Masri
The problem with saying or feeling 'sorry' is that it often comes after the damage is already done. (..........and a damage is a damage, small or big, it always leave an ugly mark on one's soul)
Asma Naqi
The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased.
Tariq Ali
I don't know why but they you said it I started believing it.
Salman Naveed
The antagonists of finance’s future, the diaboli ex machina, may have no face at all.
Usman W. Chohan
Wake up call may be a disastrous failure, if it results in a life change, the failure is worth the suffering
Faisal Khosa
Men marry. Women wed.
Raheel Farooq
people who ran away are friends!
Bilal Tanweer
What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can it be that that is our sanctuary, our refuge, our way to liberty?
Noorilhuda
Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.
Noorilhuda
The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.
Noorilhuda
Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy.
Raheel Farooq
Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!
Raheel Farooq
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Everyone is the right person for the right person.
Raheel Farooq
Poverty is everywhere, Zarish. People should have the courage to get out of the vicious circle of it.
Sara Naveed
One realizes the immortality of true love only after the lover dies
Kanza Javed
Gossip is not adopted by the bored. It is an art of discourse adopted by those who have experienced absolutely nothing thrilling in their lives; they have never really fallen in love or casually spoken to a complete stranger, and they never dreamt of doing anything extraordinary. They are a group of people with dull lives and souls.
Kanza Javed
Limiting beliefs and thoughts are created in the mind. These mental blocks must be cleared to be happy. Only then the loving wisdom of the soul will open.
Hina Hashmi
Runner up is champion of the losers.
Raheel Farooq
Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.
Raheel Farooq
When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where passion attains fulfillment.
Shah Asad Rizvi
Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.
Shah Asad Rizvi
Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.
Shah Asad Rizvi