The Most Beautiful Quotes by Darwish
- Rhetoric is the high competency of elevating lies to the level of melody; in oratory, honesty is often a slip of the tongue.
- Shout to affirm that you are still alive, and that life on this earth is indeed possible.
- I will live as my language desires me to be; I will embrace the strength of this challenge.
- Can I select my dreams to avoid wishing for the unattainable?
- If it weren’t for the nostalgia for a lost paradise, there would be neither poetry nor memory, and the eternal would lack the solace of meaning.
- Without memory, there can be no genuine connection to a place.
- No night is long enough for us to dream twice.
- Nostalgia is the conversation of the absent with the absent, a glance from afar to the distant past.
- If the olive tree remembered its planter, oil would weep like tears.
- Solitude is a filter, not a mirror.
- The beauty of coincidence lies in its freedom from anticipation.
- I have arrived, yet I have not truly reached; I have reached, but I have not returned.
- Beware of the betrayal of joy; its betrayal is harsh.
- If you write the word ‘river’ correctly, the river will flow onto your pages.
- Our belongings die like us, yet they are not buried with us.
- The dream finds the dreamers; all the dreamer must do is remember.
- Time is a gentle river for those who do not pay attention, yet it is a fierce beast for those who stare deeply into its flow, dragging them into the abyss.
- Silence stutters; it is a chatter of elements that do not master the art of conversation.
- The wheat is bitter in the fields of others, the water is salty, the clouds are steel, and this star is painful.
- Writing is both an approach and a departure, interchanging past and present.
- Death means nothing to us; we exist, thus death bears no significance. It exists, and we do not.
- Death does not hurt the dead; it is the living who suffer from death.
- Identity is what we inherit, not what we possess; it is what we create, not what we remember.
- Goals may differ from path to path, yet the journeys are arduous, and the resources of life are limited.
- If you wish to reach your wild self, do not travel the obvious routes.
- The gap between courage and fear is a dream manifested in its gallows—oh, how vast is the narrow kiss.
- If I wish to forget, I remember.
- Should we fail to find someone to defeat us again, we shall conquer ourselves with our own hands to avoid forgetting.
- The one who has taken everything from you will not offer you anything; if they do, it will come with disrespect.
- My path to God begins from a star in the south.
- I lived close to my life as it is; nothing proves I am alive, nor does anything prove I am dead.
- In tranquility, there is bliss; in silence, there is life; and between the two lie details that no one comprehends.
- Everything beyond your small hands belongs to your small hands if you master writing without errors.
- I do not hate a poet who hates me, but I apologize for the pain I have caused.
- Nothing pleases me; I want to cry.
- Fear has many names, including the absence of fear and seeing the hunter in the feathers of the prey.
- Why did you leave the horse alone? So it could comfort the house, my son; for houses die when their inhabitants are absent.
- I have a hope that comes and goes, but I will not say goodbye to it.
- What have we done, mother? That we must die twice; once in life and again at death.
- Who am I to tell you what I say? I could have been someone else; I could have not been here.
- Every time I search for myself, I find others; and every time I look for them, I find only my strange self.
Mohamed Darwish’s Quotes on Love
- A poet bears no shame in lying, for he lies only in love.
- My heart is small; yet my love is vast—it travels in the wind, descends and spills like pomegranate seeds, then gets lost in almond-shaped eyes, rises at dawn, leaves dimpled smiles, and forgets the way back to its home and name. Indeed, my heart is small; yet love is grand.
- Some see love as life, while others perceive it as a lie; both are truthful: the former has encountered its spirit, while the latter has lost it.
- Peace be upon love, on the day it arrives, the day it departs, and the day it transforms its companions.
- I marvel at those who have known love; how then, do they love?
- The first love does not perish; instead, true love arrives to bury it alive.
- In the law of love, a morning without a “good morning” from the one you adore remains night until further notice.
- Love comes without reason, subject to no constraints; it is not purchased with wealth, nor seized by beauty, nor measured by age; it is destiny.
- Life teaches you love, experiences reveal who you love, and situations illuminate who loves you.
- He returned her heart and said: “Loving her costs me what I do not cherish.”
- Love means not isolating you from the world; love is letting you blend into the crowd, fully aware that your heart is mine.
- Love is when I scold you, and you scold me over the smallest mistakes; it is forgiving you while you pardon my gravest faults.
- And who are you, dear love, that we obey your intentions or desire to fall victim to you?
- What if hearts collided in an accident of love?