Quotes by Pakistani Authors - Page 5

The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.
Nadeem Aslam
If you realise and accept your mistakes, faults and wrong doings, it is the exact way to recognising, getting and finding yourself, when it happens, you are a genius
Ehsan Sehgal
Every Mistake Teach Us a Lesson
Ashfaq Ahmed
One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.
Raheel Farooq
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
Life is full of drama, competition, difficulties, and God knows what else. But that shouldn't rule out the love, happiness and joy we feel by being around the things we love and the people who love us.
Zainab T. Khan
It is given that we'll face difficulties and breaking points in our lives but with them we'll also have lots of positive moments. We only have to recognize them and let them be. We shouldn't burden those few positive moments with the negatives in our lives or we're going to just ruin them.
Zainab T. Khan
Our honour is that we make the law to violate and break it, and we stay to do that.
Ehsan Sehgal
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
Life tries you at a time whether you want to follow your dreams or you want to fulfill your desires!No doubts path to the dreams is tough one and tiresome yet more valuable.
raja shakeel mushtaque
Love doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to be true.
Moosa Rahat
He said her name, repeatedly, so that she never lost the sound of his voice around it. So that every time someone called her name, she would be able to hear only Aman Erum.
Fatima Bhutto
Elias and Laia are each other’s countermelodies. I am just a dissonant note.
Sabaa Tahir
Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi.
Kamila Shamsie
Guys who kiss girls on the forehead are the sweetest and the best gentlemen you can ever have.
Moosa Rahat
All around us, Karachi kept moving
Kamila Shamsie
Fight back, Laia. For Darin. For Izzi. For every Scholar this beast has abused. Fight. A scream bursts from me, and I claw at Marcus’s face, but a punch to my stomach takes the wind out of my lungs. I double over, retching, and his knee comer up into my forehead. The hallway spins, and I drop to my knees. Then I hear him laughting, a sadistic chuckle that stokes my defiance.Sluggishly, I throw myself at his legs. It won’t be like before, like during the raid when I let that Mask drag me about my own house like some dead thing.This time, I’ll fight. Tooth and nail, I’ll fight.
Sabaa Tahir
Imran Khan says 'End your ego, think of nation
Imran Khan
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
If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then you have an ego problem.
Nouman Ali Khan
My mother always says when you fight destiny, destiny fights back. Some things, they're just written in the stars. You can try but you can never escape what's meant to be.
Aisha Saeed
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.
Sabaa Tahir
Smile fragrances one's reflection of the inner, which inspires others pleasure feeling.
Ehsan Sehgal
Each subject perceives and instigates the violence within the philosophy of nonviolence since injustice, hatred and such conduct hold the feeling of violence, even changing the system, first, passes the violence before it prevails. Despite that, violence also exists, in one's thoughts, without exception; however, the question is not the violence, but self-control that demonstrates the peace, which approaches the victory and supremacy.
Ehsan Sehgal
The fury of those nativists advocating wholesale slaughter was what struck Nadia most, and it struck her because it seemed so familiar, so much like the fury of the militants in her own city. She wondered whether she and Saeed had done anything by moving, whether the faces and buildings had changed but the basic reality of their predicament had not.
Mohsin Hamid
In times of violence, there is always that first acquaintance or intimate of ours, who, when they are touched, makes what had seemed like a bad dream suddenly, evisceratingly real.
Mohsin Hamid
I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.
Tehmina Durrani
Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded.
Imran Khan
This was different, spontaneous, unrestricted. This was what dancing was supposed to feel like - like freedom.
Anam Iqbal
The Angel of Death had sworn retribution, and she wasn’t going to stop until she’d killed them all.
Anam Iqbal
He was the one for her. She somehow knew that no one could make her feel the way did. Not if she lived for another hundred years.
Anam Iqbal
She was floating in the midst of a black sea, in the darkest of nights, with no hope or care to see light again. She was a mere wave away from drowning in blackness.
Anam Iqbal
He darted for her; his blade wielded smooth and steady in front of him. She didn't hold back either; when they joined, their weapons clanked and sparked with an icy rage. They danced around one another; their feet light yet balanced, their arms twisting and turning with every thundering blow they made.
Anam Iqbal
Death was a friend to her; she was unafraid of it: bringing to to others, meeting it herself. And yet, she'd flinched from it today... What was it about that man that she just couldn't let go? Couldn't conquer the part of her heart that had loved him?
Anam Iqbal
As he left, he saw the streets were just as deserted and quiet as before, but now he knew it was an illusion. There were ninjas, darker than a starless night, watching their territory and his every move from the rooftops high above.
Anam Iqbal
...even if all they did was look at each other, it rattled her entire being because there was no thought or person or barrier between them. Not a single one. They were both thoroughly absorbed in every moment they spent together. It was terrifying. Like being swept away by a powerful wind, where your body rendered all its control to another force that could ignite as well as destroy you.
Anam Iqbal
Silence and Patience stop many wars
Fozia Malik
What to describe patience, how to check that? One may balance its anger, desire, feeling and burden of waiting, which show the routine attitude that one can adopt. However, the real test of one's patience appears when a naked woman invites in front of it; one ignores and avoids, to respond and react since that grasps the significant and substantial patience; it verifies that.
Ehsan Sehgal
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
May my haters live long to see my success.
Moosa Rahat
Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.
Raheel Farooq
Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.
Raheel Farooq
Abdullah to Kim Burton: "War is like disease. Until you've had it, you don't know it. But no. That's a bad comparison. At least with disease everyone thinks it might happen to them one day. You have a pain here, swelling there, a cold that stays and stays. You start to think maybe this is something really bad. But war - countries (America) like yours they always fight wars, but always somewhere else. The disease always happens somewhere else. Tt's why you fight wars more than anyone else; because you understand war least of all. You need to understand it better.
Kamila Shamsie
It is hard to explain to a privileged child the difference between freedom and captivity. For him, the world functions differently, all rains bear fruits and all men are free. He catches a golden bird and puts it inside a gold cage. He watches it grow, captivated, unaware that with its beautiful body comes a pair of wings that can set it free.
Kanza Javed
Either I can go back to my childhood or my childhood can come forth to me. This is what I'm desperately wishes...
Hira Shahid Kazim
And the dusk in my heartBecomes lightWhen youLook toward me…
Rehmat Changaizi
The dead should not linger.
Sarwat Chadda
Reasonable things would never bring you joy as much as unreasonable ones do.
Zainab T. Khan
You can't do what you want to, so just do what you have to.
Moveena Rasheed
Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after the failure that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.
Sabaa Tahir
You’re sure this is what you want?” I search her eyes for doubt, fear, uncertainty, but all I see is that fire. Ten hells“I’m sure”“Then I’ll find a way
Sabaa Tahir
The essence of all human rights is the equality of the entire human race, which the Qur’ān assumed, affirmed, and confirmed. It obliterated all distinctions among men except goodness and virtue (taqwā)
Fazlur Rahman
Empirical" knowledge itself is of little benefit unless it awakens the inner perception of man as to his own situation, his potentialities, his risks, and his destiny
Fazlur Rahman
If one has not been able to experience God by himself, one should allow himself to be guided by the experiences of others who have experienced Him
Muhammad Asad
The Qur’ān does not appear to endorse the kind of doctrine of a radical mind-body dualism found in Greek philosophy, Christianity, or Hinduism; indeed, there is hardly a passage in the Qur'ān that says that man is composed of two separate, let alone disparate, substances, the body and the soul.
Fazlur Rahman
Taqwā means to protect oneself against the harmful or evil consequences of one's conduct. If, then, by "fear of God" one means fear of the consequences of one's actions—whether in this world or the next (fear of punishment of the Last Day)—one is absolutely right. In other words, it is the fear that comes from an acute sense of responsibility, here and in the hereafter, and not the fear of a wolf or of an uncanny tyrant, for the God of the Qur’ān has unbounded mercy—although He also wields dire punishment, both in this world and in the hereafter.
Fazlur Rahman
This idea (Taqwa)can be effectively conveyed by the term "conscience," if the object of conscience transcends it. This is why it is proper to say that "conscience" is truly as central to Islam as love is to Christianity when one speaks of the human response to the ultimate reality—which, therefore, is conceived in Islam as merciful justice rather than fatherhood. Taqwā, then, in the context of our argument, means to be squarely anchored within the moral tensions, the "limits of God," and not to "transgress" or violate the balance of those tensions or limits. Human conduct then becomes endowed with that quality which renders it "service to God [‘ibāda].
Fazlur Rahman
the Qur’ān appears to be interested in three types knowledge for man. One is the knowledge of nature which has been made subservient to man, i.e., the physical sciences. The second crucial type is the knowledge of history (and geography): the Qur’ān persistently asks man to "travel on the earth" and see for himself what happened to bygone civilizations and why they rose and fell. The third is the knowledge of man himself.
Fazlur Rahman
Nor can one take an unfair attitude even towards enemies: "Let the enmity of a people[towards you] not determine you upon an unjust course; be fair, it is closer to taqwā. Quran
Fazlur Rahman