Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib Quotes

#1. When nothing was, then God was there,
Had nothing been God would have been;
My being has defeated me,
Had I not been, what would have been.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#2. The world is no more than the Beloved's face. And the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#3. The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#4. Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#5. For how tiny the world,
This ant's egg-and the sky!

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#6. The world is a playground -Indian

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#7. Love demands patience, desire is restless; What color shall I paint the heart, until you savage it? You shall not ignore me when the time comes, I know, but I may turn to dust before the news reaches you.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#8. Whereas it is difficult for everything to work out easily, A man cannot even afford to be a human

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#9. The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#10. Love knows no difference between life and death
The one who gives you a reason to live is also the one who takes your breath away

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#11. Love cannot be seeded into someone. It is a fire that is difficult to kindle but once it takes on, it is equally difficult to extinguish.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#12. In the deadly sweep Of every wave, A thousand dangers lie in wait.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#13. If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#14. Oh, Lord, it is not the sins I have committed that I regret, but those which I have had no opportunity to commit

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#15. Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#16. Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#17. Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#18. For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib