Quotes by Pakistani Authors - Page 3

If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.
Raheel Farooq
There is nothing right and wrong until anyone defines it.
Zaman Ali
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.
Muhammad Iqbal
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
But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at her and at her pictures; and it would stop being real the moment the man with the camera stopped clicking.
Umair Naeem
What you desire is what you want, what you have is what Allah wants.
Nouman Ali Khan
Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.
Raheel Farooq
The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.
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
What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen.
Raheel Farooq
Stay away to abuse and misemploy knowledge, and neutrality with jealousy since it reflects the lack of sense.
Ehsan Sehgal
The jealousy holds neither the colours and nor the places. It is voiceless and timeless a time bomb within you to blow up only you, not others.
Ehsan Sehgal
For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?
Kamila Shamsie
Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you.
Raheel Farooq
They were happy, I thought. As a child, laughter is all you need as proof of happiness. As a child you don't know there are so many different kinds of laughter - like different varieties of birds. Some are flightless.
Faiqa Mansab
You can't become a millionaire until you think like one.
Moosa Rahat
Divinity guides us all the time but most of us don’t know how to interpret its messages.
Hina Hashmi
Conscience unlike a beard does not grow overnight, you have it or you don't
Faisal Khosa
Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete.
Raheel Farooq
Life has no meaning. You give meaning to everything. Your beliefs influence the meanings you give. Your judgment about situations is based on the beliefs you hold.
Hina Hashmi
The world won't get more or less terrible if we're indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate.
Kamila Shamsie
Everybody wants to be your friend when you have something that they want.
Moosa Rahat
Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.
Raheel Farooq
Religion and philosophy have different logics, speak different languages. Their logics are mutually exclusive, languages sometimes overlapping. It is hard to find something really common in them. I think I---a man in totally unconditional pursuit of happiness, whatever it is, wherever it lies---am only supposed to consider which of them has more in common with life!
Raheel Farooq
Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits!
Raheel Farooq
The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent.
Raheel Farooq
Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.
Raheel Farooq
Comparison is the most abused intellectual tool of all. We compare men and women, man and God, good and bad, equal and unequal, forgetting that this sin only results in a punishment so severe that we can't even trace it back to its origins. All we're left with in the end is ambiguity, uncertainty, lethargy and and Kafka!
Raheel Farooq
Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom.
Raheel Farooq
Slowly, even though I thought it would never happen, New York lost its charm for me. I remember arriving in the city for the first time, passing with my parents through the First World's Club bouncers at Immigration, getting into a massive cab that didn't have a moment to waste, and falling in love as soon as we shot onto the bridge and I saw Manhattan rise up through the looks of parental terror reflected in the window. I lost my virginity in New York, twice (the second one wanted to believe he was the first so badly). I had my mind blown open by the combination of a liberal arts education and a drug-popping international crowd. I became tough. I had fun. I learned so much.But now New York was starting to feel empty, a great party that had gone on too long and was showing no sign of ending soon. I had a headache, and I was tired. I'd danced enough. I wanted a quiet conversation with someone who knew what load-shedding was.
Mohsin Hamid
A third layer of nativeness was composed of those whom others thought directly descended, even the tiniest fraction of their genes, from the human beings who had been brought from Africa centuries ago as slaves. While this layer of nativeness was not vast in proportion of the rest, it had vast importance, for society had been shaped in reaction to it. An unspeakable violence had occurred in relation to it, and yet it endured, fertile, a stratum of soil that perhaps made possible all future transplanted soils.
Mohsin Hamid
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
If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.
Raheel Farooq
Criticism, upon the right one, surpasses and prevails, nothing since it causes a sign of self-discredit.
Ehsan Sehgal
It is not my methodology to engage too much with critics for many reasons:- I honestly believe that my ego is not worthy of my having to defend it. There are far more important things in the ummah than me having to respond to critics.- By and large, criticism is a part of human life and nature and we have ourselves to accomplish more than just responding to what people say about us.- The best way to silence the speech of the critics it through the deafening noise of your own actions.- Criticising is the job that requires zero qualifications.
Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
Success has interesting phenomenon -The more hardships you face for it, The more glorious and inspirational it will be
raja shakeel mushtaque
Hardships scorch as sun burns each entity to glow it golden.
raja shakeel mushtaque
You will have to pay for your choices much more than you realize.
Fatima Bhutto
A beautiful girlfriend is worth two more.
Raheel Farooq
After sealing the door, Alqash went to the river to cleanse the blood from his hands and the dagger, and also to wash his hands of the faith that he had forfeited in exchange for short-lived riches.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Life is, you know, but an idea. You can fill it up with anything really and deceive yourself into believing that is what you need. You can be happy, sad, benevolent, crafty, unpleasant. That man filled it up with nastiness and it destroyed him in the end. I wonder what could have made him that way. Cruelty on the part of others or cruelty in his heart?" - Lady Cavendish
Noorilhuda
A secret life taught me: it doesn't get easier, you become stronger.
Asma Naqi
Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.
Mohsin Hamid
Monetary policy does not work like a scalpel but more like a sledgehammer.
Liaquat Ahamed
I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there's nothing I can do to stop her.
Mohsin Hamid
Our spirit requires freedom in every area of our lives. The barriers that stop our soul from free expression are doubt, guilt, resentment, and thoughts of lack or limitation.
Hina Hashmi
She's still clinging to the side of her mountain, just like I'm still wandering lost in my battlefield.
Sabaa Tahir
Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.
Moosa Rahat
Be optimistic. Surely, you will reach your goals by the grace of God.
Moosa Rahat
When Hamid dropped Lata off at her house at nine that night, he felt hollow. The touch of her soft body was sheared from him like bark from a tree, and he spent the entire night tossing and turning.
Saadat Hasan Manto
Don’taccept good things from bad people.
Malala Yousafzai
The hatred is not a feeling; it is a poisoning disease of mental and heart. One should eliminate before it outbreaks since it undermines the prestige, pride and national image.
Ehsan Sehgal
The administration, whether it is small or large, it is, as a company or a state, it is with uniform or not. If the ignorant, immoral, loose-lips, uncultured and without etiquette, opportunistic, liar, mentality vain, dishonest and unfair people are there, I am just sure of it that the destination is the destruction, chaos, slavery and hatred.
Ehsan Sehgal
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
Are the Trials starting?” The girl claps her hands over her mouth. “I'm sorry,” she whispers. “I—”“It's all right.” I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing. “I'm actually wondering the same thing. What's your name?”“S-slave-Girl.” Of course. My mother would already have scourged her name out of existence.“Right. You work for the Commandant?” I want her to say no. I want her to say that my mother roped her into this. I want her to say she's assigned to the kitchens or infirmary, where slaves aren't scarred or missing body p
Sabaa Tahir
Fight and eliminate your evil thoughts for your honour, and own respect to become the best, and the great human, if you are the conscious and sentient person.
Ehsan Sehgal
I will not go back. No bad thing for me to die. I will make it happen so that it happens only once.
Shahrukh Husain
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