Quotes About Ghalib

#1. 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.

William Dalrymple

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

Khushwant Singh

#3. 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

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

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Instead of getting mad or getting even, get creative.

Pat Williams

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

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#12. 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

#13. Hey, do you want to end this right now?" Her eyes flared. "I wouldn't have asked you out if I'd wanted to end it. Sit back, eat and enjoy. Pretend I'm dead.

David Bischoff

#14. 'Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.

Mark Burnett

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

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#16. The path to enlightenment, to find out who you truly are, has to be taken alone.

Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla

#17. What you read between the covers of your Bible is wisdom for a lifetime, rock-solid, forever truth - truth you can stand on, live by, and trust ... forever.

Elizabeth George

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

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#19. I live in New York City, but I live in Hoboken because it's cheaper there, and I can own a condo.

Katie Nolan

#20. I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose.

Eva Green

#21. 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

#22. 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.

Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla

#23. The world is a playground -Indian

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

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

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

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

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#26. We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#28. 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

#29. I'm glad nothing requires my intervention, because I'm trying hard to maintain my composure. This is the first time I've ever seen a woman naked and I don't think I'll ever be the same.

Sara Gruen

#30. Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do.

Katy Butler

#31. A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

Joyce Cary

#32. 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