Words worth keeping

دل ہی تو ہے نہ سنگ و خشت درد سے بھر نہ آئے کیوں، روئیں گے ہم ہزار بار کوئی ہمیں ستائے کیوں۔

درد منت کش دوا نہ ہوا، میں نہ اچھا ہوا برا نہ ہوا۔

دل نہ امید تو ہے، ناکام ہی تو ہے۔

غم دنیا سے بھی ہو غم یار سے بھی، سنبھالا ہے دل کو ہر اک بار بھی۔

اے بسا آرزو کہ خاک شدہ۔

کوئی امید بر نہیں آتی، کوئی صورت نظر نہیں آتی۔

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.