Top 43 Nazim Hikmet Sayings
#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. Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.
Katrina Kenison
#4. At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.
Nazim Hikmet
#5. 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
#6. The most beautiful curve on a woman's body is her smile.
Bob Marley
#9. In fact a few simple mathematical calculations reveal that if reference librarians were paid at market rates for all the roles they play, they would have salaries well over $200,000.
Will Manley
#10. Success is ... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.
John C. Maxwell
#11. My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys.
Ted Danson
#12. 'Fire and Hemlock' is the reason I'm a writer.
Marie Brennan
#13. At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.
Nazim Hikmet
#14. To visit a museum is fine,
to be a museum piece is terrible!
- Gioconda and Si-Ya-U
Nazim Hikmet
#15. New Rule: Coal companies have to stop calling coal "energy." That's like a lumber company calling wood "fire." Or Budweiser calling beer "urine." Okay, that one kind of makes sense.
Bill Maher
#16. A young Harvard student, traveled west to Oklahoma to live among the Kiowa and participate in the solemn rites of the peyote cult. In one photograph the land appears as a blur of dust, the sky fading to gray, the air darkened by soil worked loose by the wind, the farmhouses
Wade Davis
#17. We were fair game
but we have kept out of the cesspool.
We are strong.
We are the good ones.
Do not discover us
for we lie together all in green
like pond weeds.
Hold me, my young dear, hold me.
Anne Sexton
#19. We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting
Nazim Hikmet
#20. My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?
Nazim Hikmet
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. There are reasons to be sad, disconsolate, bitter, but there is not a single reason to be hopeless.
Nazim Hikmet
#24. However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
Nazim Hikmet
#26. I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn't as important as what you do on the inside.
Alana Stewart
#27. 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
#28. To live! like a tree alone and free,
To live! like a forest in brotherhood/sisterhood ...
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. Separation isn't time or distance
it's the bridge between us
finer than silk thread sharper than swords
Nazim Hikmet
#31. That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.
Nazim Hikmet
#32. The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?
Nazim Hikmet
#33. ... and the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.
Nazim Hikmet
#34. Words could hurt worse than any stone, and the bruises lasted longer. Harboring
Nevada Barr
#35. Being captured is beside the point
the point is not to surrender
Nazim Hikmet
#36. 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
#38. And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.
Nazim Hikmet
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Despite all the shit we've been through, we still fall in love and have dreams. Even living the way we are, we survivors are fairly happy. Incredible, but true. Our will to live is so strong.
Manel Loureiro
#42. 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
#43. I think the biggest things I am looking forward to is getting new faces into the sport. Getting kids who could be afraid of water to feel comfortable in the pool.
Michael Phelps
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