Hikmet Quotes

#1. Don't live in the world as if you were renting or here only for the summer, but act as if it was your father's house ... Believe in seeds, earth, and the sea, but people above all. Love clouds, machines, and books, but people above all. Nazim Hikmet, 20th century Turkish poet

Nahid Rachlin

#2. The strangest of our powers
Is the courage to live
Knowing that we will die,
Knowing nothing more true.

Nazim Hikmet

#3. When I got saved, God became my art agent.

Thomas Kincade

#4. Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].

Atom Egoyan

#5. I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother. I've never identified as a man. I've always either felt like a boy or something else. I feel really uncomfortable thinking that, technically, I'm supposed to be a man, because I don't feel like one.

Zachary Cole Smith

#6. At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.

Nazim Hikmet

#7. The most beautiful sea
hasn't been crossed yet.
The most beautiful child
hasn't grown up yet.
The most beautiful days
we haven't seen yet.
And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you
I haven't said yet ...

Nazim Hikmet

#8. I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

Angus Young

#9. Books must be wind and pull the curtains.

Nazim Hikmet

#10. Thinking of you is pretty, hopeful,
It is like listening to the most beautiful song
From the most beautiful voice on earth ...
But hope is not enough for me any more,
I don't want to listen to songs any more,
I want to sing.

Nazim Hikmet

#11. At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.

Nazim Hikmet

#12. To visit a museum is fine,
to be a museum piece is terrible!

- Gioconda and Si-Ya-U

Nazim Hikmet

#13. Loneliness feels like prison.

Nazim Hikmet

#14. We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting

Nazim Hikmet

#15. My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?

Nazim Hikmet

#16. We'll dive into the earth together. And if one day a wild flower finds water and springs up from that piece of earth, its stem will have two blooms for sure: one will be you, the other me.

Nazim Hikmet

#17. If your grip on coins of life is not strong enough than they will gradually slip away from your hands,for surely one day you will find that your hands are empty

Kiran

#18. I've never regretted I was born too soon. I'm proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I'm satisfied to join its ranks on our side and fight for a new world ...

Nazim Hikmet

#19. When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space, there was not a single eye on earth looking at the sky ...

Nazim Hikmet

#20. I'm only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago, I'm seven now as I was then - When children die, they do not grow.

Nazim Hikmet

#21. And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.

Nazim Hikmet

#22. You Are My Drunkenness
You are my drunkenness ...
I did not sober up, as if I can do that;
I don't want to anyway.
I have a headache, my knees are full of scars
I am in mud all around
I struggle to walk towards your hesitant light.

Nazim Hikmet

#23. Being captured is beside the point
the point is not to surrender

Nazim Hikmet

#24. There are reasons to be sad, disconsolate, bitter, but there is not a single reason to be hopeless.

Nazim Hikmet

#25. ... and the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.

Nazim Hikmet

#26. The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

Nazim Hikmet

#27. That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.

Nazim Hikmet

#28. Separation isn't time or distance
it's the bridge between us
finer than silk thread sharper than swords

Nazim Hikmet

#29. Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.

Nazim Hikmet

#30. To live! like a tree alone and free,
To live! like a forest in brotherhood/sisterhood ...

Nazim Hikmet

#31. Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

Nazim Hikmet

#32. Some for the Glories of the World, and some Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come;

Steven Weinberg

#33. At eighteen you sleep without memories.

Nazim Hikmet

#34. However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

Nazim Hikmet