Quotes by Pakistani Authors - Page 11

May the bridges I burn light the way
Moosa Rahat
The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.
Raheel Farooq
Learn, or you'll be made to learn.
Raheel Farooq
Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.
Raheel Farooq
When it comes to learning success, action is your school, and failure your teacher.
Majid Kazmi
Learning is experiential! The more I experience the more I learn. I love this interdependent process!
Hira Shahid Kazim
All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them.
Raheel Farooq
Never be afraid of the dark side of Vegas, the side the neon and glitter never seem to touch..
Hazim Bangwar
Life feels good if you don't know what it is.
Raheel Farooq
It would be a remarkable life, if we live it in the same manner as we do once we find out we do not have much to live
Faisal Khosa
Life is like a plate of chillies, what you do today might just burn your ass tomorrow!
Hazim Bangwar
Don't take life to seriously, its not like you're going to get out alive! #Life
Hazim Bangwar
There is always a better option, than the option giving up.
Omar Abbasi
A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, ‘O’ God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee’?
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
Prayer can guarantee anyone's success but never someone's failure
Faisal Khosa
The prayer from the heart is a great power.
Ehsan Sehgal
He prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for what had gone and would go and could be loved in no other way. When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too often refuse to acknowledge in one another, and out of this Saeed felt it might be possible, in the face of death, to believe in humanity's potential for building a better world.
Mohsin Hamid
What happens is my mind starts to go in circles, thinking and thinking, and then I can't sleep. And once a couple of days go by, if you haven't slept, you start to get sick. You can't eat. You start to cry. It just feeds on itself.
Mohsin Hamid
Now, standing here, it is clear as day: more than anything else, you want to find words for what you feel and think and everything that is dark. And then this terrifying thought hits you: Yes, your father wrote poetry to find a language for his wounds. Yes, you in your own way have become your father.
Bilal Tanweer
I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.
Mohsin Hamid
Human beings don’t necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly place them.It’s a mistake to ask literature to reinforce such structures. Literature tends to crack them. Literature is where we free ourselves.
Mohsin Hamid
Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question “What do these people have to do with us?” and “What are we doing out there in the world?
Kamila Shamsie
LatelyI’ve been dreaming about youAbout usSharing our secretsTalking, even if we arguedKept talking, till we sleptMaybe I woke upOn the wrong side of bedMaybe I thought about youJust a little too much
Irum Zahra
You see the world in colors,I see in Black and Red.
Irum Zahra
I grow weary of the loveThat lasts for a nightWhen it should be thereThe next sunrise
Irum Zahra
When my words are concealedWith lies and disguises, truth and beyondInsecurities in the veil of trustBetrayal in bounds of liesIt’s just the charm of words darlingGiving the illusion of happiness inside misery
Irum Zahra
InsomniaI wonderIf those talks matterFew done in the clarity of dayOr the manyDone at 3 a.m. in the morning
Irum Zahra
Literature and film in my opinion are like saloons where bottles have no labels. I want to taste each one myself and figure out which is what. If I'm denied this by labelling, then my entertainment is considerably lessened.
Saadat Hasan Manto
Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity.
Saadat Hasan Manto
The end of the world can be cozy at times.
Mohsin Hamid
...and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.
Saadat Hasan Manto
Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.
Nadeem Aslam
If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don't believe the fact or it is not a fact.
Raheel Farooq
Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you're but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more.
Raheel Farooq
If in doubt,trust your instincts because either you are right or lack the bite to fix it right.
Asim kayani
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
Show me your friends and I'll show you your future.
Moosa Rahat
Never believe the lines on your hands that predict your future. Because people who don't have also have future.
Moosa Rahat
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain
Mohsin Hamid
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
Mohsin Hamid
Changing irrational beliefs can impact multiple areas of life. It doesn’t matter how many times you repeat affirmations for success but if you don’t change your core beliefs, the changes will be temporary.
Hina Hashmi
The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate.
Raheel Farooq
Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like.
Raheel Farooq
All I ever wanted is you, Miss Zarish,” he said while pulling her closer to himself.
Sara Naveed
Everything is a part of destiny’s plan and I believe true love awaits its destiny.
Sara Naveed
There are no plans, just people fooling themselves by attempting to design their fates and futures. It makes them feel invincible, even if it’s for a transient period of time.
Kanza Javed
One shouldn't envy another person's Destiny!As the fate written for everyone is not the same but surely a good one.
raja shakeel mushtaque
The best standard of living will be attained when your house will be filled with God's blessings.
Moazzam Shaikh
It's not in the life, it's in the living.
Raheel Farooq
Living and struggling, for others, is a great and dignified life. Whereas, living for oneself exhibits just egocentric and own importance, since mostly falls under it.
Ehsan Sehgal
There will be a great imbalance in our strengths if we fight, because I am prepared to die and you are desperate to live.
Tehmina Durrani
Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong.
Raheel Farooq
Clearly it's not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go the extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. we have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us via the male members of our family.
Benazir Bhutto
Perhaps grief is like battle: After experiencing enough of it, your body’s instincts take over. When you see it closing in like a Martial death squad, you harden your insides. You prepare for the agony of a shredded heart. And when it hits, it hurts, but not as badly, because you have locked away your weakness, and all that’s left is anger and strength.
Sabaa Tahir
When you’ve had a psychotic breakdown it’s always so difficult making that decision. You meet someone new and you wonder how much you should tell them? You wonder what that person’s threshold of ‘strange’ is, and at what point in my story would I end up driving them away. That fear it’s always there in the back of your mind. Those details you never really even admitted to yourself, but that somehow have to be told just as much as they have to be buried deep down.
Cyma Rizwaan Khan
That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic.
Raheel Farooq
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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
Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many.
Raheel Farooq