Quotes by Pakistani Authors - Page 6

Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.
Shah Asad Rizvi
Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent—admittedly in my own best interest—on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.
Mohsin Hamid
All that pain of craving somewhere deep inside which lies in wait for one glimpse.
Saqlain bin mushtaq
...to imitate Western civilization in its spirit, its mode of life and its social organization is impossible without dealing a fatal blow to the very existence of Islam as an ideological proposition.
Muhammad Asad
Loneliness teaches and shows you the real and unreal and such things that one can never understand and even imagine living with others.
Ehsan Sehgal
Never believe the lines on your hands that predict your future. Because people who don't have also have future.
Moosa Rahat
You will have to pay for your choices much more than you realize.
Fatima Bhutto
for the first time I am confronted with the fact that places and people are like things: both made of memories and meaningful to us in the same way: we construct ourselves in our conversations with them.
Bilal Tanweer
When you choose being a loving soul, and give proper attention to your dreams without using your own will power, then you are in a process of creating a range of experiences which flow into your life harmoniously.
Hina Hashmi
He had accessorized his life with everything but paternal instinct.
Noorilhuda
One's ugly face and features may not be a problem. Conversely, one's such character displays, well a problem since no one tolerates it.
Ehsan Sehgal
Can angels lie spine to spine?If not, how they must envy us humans
Kamila Shamsie
Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions.
Raheel Farooq
Love is ease.
Noorilhuda
When one has been as near to the reality of Life (which after all is Death) as I have been dearest, one only remembers the beautiful and tender moments and all the rest becomes a half veiled mist of unrealities. Try and remember me beloved as the flower you plucked and not the flower you tread upon . . . . Darling I love you—I love you—and had I loved you just a little less I might have remained with you—only after one has created a very beautiful blossom one does not drag it through the mire. The higher you set your ideal the lower it falls. I have loved you my darling as it is given to few men to be loved. I only beseech you that the tragedy which commenced in love should also end with it. . . .Ruttie Jinnah's last letter to Jinnah
Rafia Zakaria
Our bodies are reflective of our inner feelings. If we feel emotionally or sexually vulnerable inside, we may build a protective layer of fat over our abdomen or hips, the places where we hold our emotions and sexuality.
Hina Hashmi
How do you end a story that’s not yours? Add another sentence where there is a pause? Infiltrate the story with a comma when really there should have been a period? Punctuate with an exclamation point where a period would have sufficed? What if you kill something breathing and breathe life into something the author wanted to eliminate? How do you get inside the mind of a person who isn’t there? Fill the shoes of someone who will never again fill his own?
Shaila M. Abdullah
Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.
Raheel Farooq
The lovers don't hide them from their beloved. If anyone of them, doesn't respond; it is a clear and visible that, he or she is fake or silly or idiot one.
Ehsan Sehgal
read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.
Malala Yousafzai
Imran Khan says 'End your ego, think of nation
Imran Khan
He laughed a lot, but as a boy he had been so self-conscious about being dark-skinned that he went to the fields to get buffalo milk to spread on his face, thinking it would make him lighter. It was only when he met my mother that he became comfortable in his own skin. Being loved by such a beautiful girl gave him confidence.
Malala Yousafzai
Good humour was miles behind a second cup of morning tea. It was too early for nonsense.
Zeenat Mahal
If we continuously protest and complain about our life then we actually create barriers in the manifestation process and the natural flow of life.
Hina Hashmi
Indeed, the victory by the force of weapons shows just one's tenure and occupancy. Conversely, the real victory breezes only by dialogue and love.
Ehsan Sehgal
Democracy is the best revenge.
Benazir Bhutto
Philologists assure us that żulm in Arabic originally meant "to put something out of its proper place," so that all wrong of any kind is injustice, i.e., an injustice against the agent himself) is, therefore, a very common term in the Qur’ān, with its clear idea that all injustice is basically reflexive.
Fazlur Rahman
Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.
Raheel Farooq
Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.
Raheel Farooq
Negative experiences lower our personal vibrations and we feel bad. This state attracts more negative experiences leading to negative vibrations. Lower vibes are bad for health of the soul.
Hina Hashmi
Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there.
Raheel Farooq
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
A mother's lap is the strongest hub and school of each religion. In other words, the mother breezes and waves the religion since the mother is a religion.
Ehsan Sehgal
You need to cleanse your mind throughout life because there is so much negativity in yourself and around. Keep cleaning and you will connect with the Universe quicker and effectively.
Hina Hashmi
The sky is a blue so clean it verges on joy.
Nadeem Aslam
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
Do not judge my success by the destination I reached but the distance I traveled.
Majid Kazmi
All evil, all injustice, all harm that one does to someone else—in sum, all deviation from man's normative nature—in a much more fundamental way and in a far more ultimate sense one does to oneself, and not just metaphorically but literally.
Fazlur Rahman
Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.
Raheel Farooq
Treat your woman with respect, because one day someone will do the same to your daughter.
Moosa Rahat
When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.
Wasif Ali Wasif
Disappear! I scream the word in my mind, queen of the desolate landscape therein, ordering her ragged troops to a last stand.
Sabaa Tahir
A regime that can suspend or abrogate the constitution and run the country on its whims and caprice should be ashamed of bringing on its lips the word "law". It is like prescribing a punishment for adultery after raping the country. It is like saying that Holy Quran is suspended nobody can escape from the Hadees.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.
Raheel Farooq
The greatest fear in life is not of death, but unsolicited change.
Raheel Farooq
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
Never judge a situation merely with a negative perspective. Look at the positive side too,” he added. “And if you do that, you will eventually feel better.
Sara Naveed
When your mind is rich in the wisdom, and your heart is sensitive and filled with love, you are a person, who can change the world.
Ehsan Sehgal
The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.
Nadeem Aslam
Human as an intellectual being needs answers about the existence for the purpose of knowing the way to live.
Zaman Ali
Love is not an idea, not a feeling, not a sensation, not a sentiment, not a passion, not even an emotion. It is becoming and being not... Ultimate nothingness! Complete self-annihilation!
Raheel Farooq
The simple truth is that nowhere in human history is there another manwho combined so uniquely and effectively in his person both the idealist and realist factors as did Muħammad (Peace be upon him)
Fazlur Rahman
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
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
Expect the best, prepare for the worst.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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
The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.
Raheel Farooq
The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self-respect. Consequently, we have a special and a very deep sense of unity. But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same things and understand the same things.
Bilal Tanweer
Life feels good if you don't know what it is.
Raheel Farooq