Ghalib's Quotes

#1. Whereas it is difficult for everything to work out easily, A man cannot even afford to be a human - Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#2. For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river. - Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#3. The path to enlightenment, to find out who you truly are, has to be taken alone. - Author: Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla

#4. Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring. - Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#5. 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. - Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#6. Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies. - Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#7. Oh, Lord, it is not the sins I have committed that I regret, but those which I have had no opportunity to commit - Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#8. If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say. - Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#9. In the deadly sweep Of every wave, A thousand dangers lie in wait. - Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#10. 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. - Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#11. 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 - Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#12. The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more. - Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#13. The same year that Ghalib died in Delhi, 1869, there was born in Porbandar in Gujarat a boy called Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. It would be with the political movements headed by Gandhi, rather than those represented by Zafar, or indeed by Lord Canning, that the future of India would lie. - Author: William Dalrymple

#14. We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few. - Author: Adolf Galland

#15. 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. - Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#16. Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object. - Author: William Hazlitt

#17. 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. - Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#18. They say that life is about balance. That it trades one sorrow for one joy and so forth until it finds some kind of harmony. Well, I want none of it. I've never been as dead as I was when I was balanced. I don't want life to be contained. I want it unbound, inspired. Alive. - Author: Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla

#19. The world is a playground -Indian - Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#20. For how tiny the world,
This ant's egg-and the sky! - Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#21. Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane - Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#22. The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river. - Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#23. The world is no more than the Beloved's face. And the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist. - Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#24. Forget the past. Decide who you are today. Discover who you will be tomorrow. - Author: Emily March

#25. Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right? - Author: Pierre Corneille

#26. Parenting is an impossible job at any age. - Author: Harrison Ford

#27. Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego. - Author: Eckhart Tolle

#28. I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib - Author: Khushwant Singh