Top 99 Attar Quotes
#1. Blue is for cruel bargains; green is for daring what you oughtn't; violet is for brute force. I will say to you: Coral coaxes; pink insists; red compels. I will say to you: You are dear to me as attar of roses. Please do not get eaten.
Catherynne M Valente
#2. The idea that his wedding band was some kind of talisman nauseated him like the smell of attar.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#3. O deaf and mute
and blind and beautiful and interminable rose
who into time, attar and verse transmute
Cecilia Meireles
#4. Let me cradle myself back Into the darkness Of the half shapes ... Of the cauled beginnings ... Let me stir the attar of unused air, Elusive ... ironically fragrant As a dead queen's kerchief ... Let me blow the dust from off you ... Resurrect your breath Lying limp as a fan In a dead queen's hand.
Lola Ridge
#5. A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.
S.J Perelman
#6. Said the tiger to the lily, Said the viper to the rose, Let us marry so our children May attain the double pose. With a feline half a flower With the attar in the asp We could institute a slaughter That would make a planet gasp.
Nathalia Crane
#7. I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.
Cynthia Ozick
#8. The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.
Walter Sickert
#10. Whether you say yes or no, you will always be my forever.
Leylah Attar
#11. What's it like to face your own mortality? "It makes you think," I reply. "The big things, the small things. The dreams, the regrets.
Leylah Attar
#12. The ocean can be yours; why should you stop
Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew?
The secrets of the sun are yours, but you
Content yourself with motes trapped in beams.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#13. What we don't understand always scares us.
Leylah Attar
#14. If Troy Heathgate locks in on you,you're done for.Even when you know he's so,so bad for you,it feels so,so good.
Leylah Attar
#15. You're like the broken chapter of my favorite story.
Leylah Attar
#16. Hope is a hollow backbone. It can't always carry the weight of reality. And I was tired of propping it up. I was tired of mending it each time it snapped.
Leylah Attar
#17. It's always there, the fire between us, like glowing embers waiting to be stoked. One look, one kiss, one caress, and I come alive for him.
Leylah Attar
#18. When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#19. I can promise you one thing. It'll be mad and passionate. Because I don't believe mediocre sex is worth having.
Leylah Attar
#20. If you think you can use her to get to me, you -"
"I don't need to use Sierra. I get to you just fine.
Leylah Attar
#21. He reminded me of pain and darkness and a double-gauzed finger. I must have reminded him of botched-up vengeance and the monster within,
Leylah Attar
#22. We started slow - a little drunk, a little dizzy - taking sips of honeyed bliss from dawn-colored lips. The world rolled below us - bicycle bells and newspaper boys, unaware that we were slowly setting the room on fire.
Leylah Attar
#23. It wasn't just a kiss. It was a lesson - a fierce, burning imprint, so that my lips would always know the difference between being wanted and being craved.
Leylah Attar
#24. His eyes spark with revolutions, enlightened trickery and unconditional affection.
Laurie Perez
#25. I don't know who moved first, maybe him, maybe me, but we were zigzagging through the hallway, our lips locked, my back against the wall, then his, banging and colliding in the narrow space until we got to the bedroom.
Leylah Attar
#26. Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw,
And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw:
Rays that have wander'd into Darkness wide
Return and back into your Sun subsid
Farid Al-Din Attar
#27. I wished I could see myself through his eyes. Then again, Damian never looked at me with his eyes. He looked at me with his soul.
Leylah Attar
#28. Something clicked inside me at that moment. I stood outside of myself, realizing how easy it was to judge someone, to vilify and condemn the things we don't understand, because:
Leylah Attar
#29. My grandma used to say that people born on the same day are two halves of the same soul
Leylah Attar
#31. It started long before this, when stars were mere particles in swirling clouds of dust. And every event since has conspired to bring us together.
Leylah Attar
#32. If I die tonight, I want to die remembering what it was like to hold the whole world in my hands.
Leylah Attar
#33. I am alone; make me your single goal --
My presence is sufficient for your soul;
I am your God, your one necessity --
With every breath you breathe, remember Me.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#34. If I ever found where he'd stashed my spiked heels, I was going to nail his black heart to the mast of his fucking boat.
Leylah Attar
#35. MaMaLu knew how to fix things - lost things, hurt things, cracked things, cut and bruised things.
Leylah Attar
#36. He was an ocean of want and need. All the raging, submerged currents that he'd kept at bay unleashed themselves on me.
Leylah Attar
#37. My heart thunders like the hooves of a thousand wild horses.
Leylah Attar
#38. He might as well have been sitting there all along, all eight years that he was away, because he was there in my head, insinuated in the cracks of my heart.
Leylah Attar
#40. My eyes were still closed when Damian grabbed my left hand, forced it palm-down on the cutting board and WHAM! He severed the tip of my pinky finger off, sliced the top third - nail, bone and all - clean off,
Leylah Attar
#41. Strive to discover the mystery
before life is taken from you.
If while living you fail to find yourself,
to know yourself,
how will you be able to understand
the secret of your existence
after you die?
Farid Al-Din Attar
#42. You have the colours of
Those jewels you so inordinately love,
And yet you seem -- like your excuses -- lame.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#43. The longer we stayed together, the longer our list of cuts and bruises grew - both inside and out.
Leylah Attar
#44. Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot ...
Farid Al-Din Attar
#46. I don't think I could have loved her more. How is that possible? When you think you've reached the very edge of love, that you can't possibly go any further, and then the circle stretched a little bigger. And the pain with it.
Leylah Attar
#47. It's always been you, Troy. Always." Always is such a bullshit word, a lie, a farce, a road that promises to go on forever. But roads, like life, branch off, and merge and meander. And they both always, always end.
Leylah Attar
#48. She was my calm in the middle of chaos, a little piece of innocence untouched by the turbulence of the past.
Leylah Attar
#49. Tough boots, snug jeans and a wicked black leather jacket - trouble cruising for a place to land.
Leylah Attar
#50. This. This is what a kiss should feel like. Like nothing else exists. All yearning and dizzy and falling and flying. Great big galaxies of want and wonder spiral inside of me.
Leylah Attar
#51. No one cares if, after a storm, they're washed ashore naked. Only that they are alive.
Leylah Attar
#53. Take that, I said to the naughty paperback lying on the floor.
Leylah Attar
#54. We had found a pocket of quiet, where all the ghosts in our minds had gone to sleep, and we were the only two people awake.
Leylah Attar
#55. Mind-blowing sex and love? That's enough for a damn good start in my book.
Leylah Attar
#56. It's me, MaMaLu," he said, trying to get the words past his clenched throat. "Your Estebandido is home." The
Leylah Attar
#57. Your father and I,we were something,you know.We burned so bright,the stars grew jealous.But maybe you know something I didn't.Maybe if you don't allow yourself to shine,you never burn out.
Leylah Attar
#58. You're ruled by things I can't compete with. Your rage trumps love, and hope, and faith.
Leylah Attar
#59. It said I was equal parts earth and stars, equal parts animal and soul. I was hope. I was calamity. I was love. I was prejudice. I was my sister. I was his daughter. I was Juma. I was Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack.
Leylah Attar
#60. I wanted to know what your lips taste like after a smile.
Leylah Attar
#62. You snorted. And you call a dick a schlong.
Leylah Attar
#63. You ever wonder what we'd find if we could pick up the threads back to the point where things unravel, where paths cross, and lives pivot, and people come together?
Leylah Attar
#65. The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#66. A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#67. But you can't shut Panic up, you know? She's a screaming, thrashing bitch, and she wanted out.
Leylah Attar
#68. It was the kind of magic that comes after a lifetime of searching, when you stumble upon something so perfect, you stop looking, and you say: Yes. This. I know this. I feel this. I've heard its footsteps echo down the hallways of my soul. We
Leylah Attar
#69. If you will but aspire
You will attain to all that you desire.
Before an atom of such need the Sun
Seems dim and mirky by comparison.
It is life's strength, the wings by which we fly
Beyond the further reaches of the sky.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#70. Nothing revives the cup of life more than a caustic splash of death.
Leylah Attar
#72. If we base our decisions on all the things we're afraid of, we would be paralyzed with fear.
Leylah Attar
#73. How do you deny a living, breathing feeling? How do you hack it and kill it and bury it so that it never surfaces again?
Leylah Attar
#74. There's a little girl in this room and she's stolen my heart. For the second time." I
Leylah Attar
#75. It's strange how someone can walk into your life, shatter the windows, break down your doors, scatter your belongings, and then walk away without having the slightest inkling of the storm they'd brought.
Leylah Attar
#76. I wish I could hold your hand outside this room, go for a walk, sit on a patio, watch the world go by.
Leylah Attar
#77. You can either choose love or you can choose hate, because where one lives, the other will die." Damian
Leylah Attar
#78. fear is a liar. Don't let it whisper in your ear. Turn that shit off. Do what scares you. Over and over again. And one day, your fear will become so small, you'll be able to laugh at it." "Big
Leylah Attar
#79. It's not perfect, this thing between us, like trying to bring the two circles of our lives together, and living in the small, tight space where they intersect, everything else pushed to the circumference, until we step back inside our very different, very separate orbs.
Leylah Attar
#80. Not a very regal send-off for a prince." I laughed as the lions retreated into the bush again.
"That was me and Goma when I was little," said Jack, starting the car. "I was always chasing something, and she was always pulling me back.
Leylah Attar
#81. God, he was intense. And deliberate. And he could say things with his eyes that made my knees tremble.
Leylah Attar
#82. Are you an only child?"
"Yep.The sole beneficiary of all their love and affection."
I put the frame away and look around."So what's it like?To have it all?"
"Like flying.Soaring.Until you come across the one thing you'd give it all up for,and can never have.
Leylah Attar
#83. They shake hands - the solid, down-to-earth man and the restless, unpredictable lightning in the sky. I feel like a tree exposed to the elements, my roots clinging to the soil, my branches flirting with heaven.
Leylah Attar
#84. Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#85. but this right here - this rain, this shack, this island, this moment - I want it to go on forever.
Leylah Attar
#86. They tell you that an affair destroys everything, that there are no winners, that there is only heartbreak.
Leylah Attar
#87. No one knows how many tomorrows they have. That's what makes it all so precious.
Leylah Attar
#88. Once you've been loved by a man like Damian, once you've been branded and molded in the fires of that possession, you will never be moved by tepid, impostor kisses.
Leylah Attar
#89. What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings.
Idries Shah
#92. If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets
Farid Al-Din Attar
#93. This is what he does to me. Open up the windows of my soul and push me out. Fly, dammit, fly!
Leylah Attar
#94. Because when we love, we carry it on the inside, and we can turn on its light even in our darkest moments. The deeper we love, the brighter it shines.
Leylah Attar
#95. This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#96. Cupbearer, fill the bowl with blood, not wine --
And if you lack the heart's rich blood, take mine.
Love thrives on inextinguishable pain;
Which tears the soul, then knits the threads again.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#97. This is what great masterpieces must feel like on museum walls - like sighing, like climbing out of their rigidly stretched frames, and falling, boneless, into a lover's glance.
Leylah Attar
#98. IT WAS A GOOD DAY for Louboutins. I hadn't planned on wearing statement heels on the runway to death, but if this was it, if I was going to be killed by some random psycho with a thirst for blood, what better way to go down than with red-soled 'fuck yous' to my murderer?
Leylah Attar
#99. Every time the sun shines through the rain, I will look for you. I will look for you in rainbows, and I will remember a man who holds the whole sky in his eyes.
Leylah Attar
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