Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib Quotes

• Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Forget, Easy, Humane

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• 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

  Love, Differences, Life And Death

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• 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

  Fire, Difficult, Kindles

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• For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Rivers, Joy, Raindrops

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• The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Rivers, Losing, Grows

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• Alas, not all things in life are easy; Even man struggles to be human.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Leadership, Struggle, Men

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• 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

  Heart, Dust, Color

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• 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

  Spiritual, Desire, Faces

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• I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life!

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Soul, World, Body

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• 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

  Defeated, Has Beens

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Ralph Russell (2000). “The Famous Ghalib”

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• 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

  Regret, Opportunity, Sin

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

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Lying, Waiting, Wave

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• For how tiny the world,
  This ant's egg-and the sky!

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Garden, Sky, Eggs

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

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Spring, Autumn, Men

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• 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

  Lying, Perception, Worship

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• He gave me heaven and earth, and assumed I'd be satisfied; Actually I was too embarrassed to argue. The spiritual seekers are tired, two or three at each stage of the path. The rest who have given up never knew your address at all. There are so many in this gathering who wish the candle well. But if the being of the candle is melting, what can the sorrow-sharers do?

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Spiritual, Tired, Two

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• 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

  Wise, Men, Play

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• 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

  Cities, Fetch, Tongue

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

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Men, Work Out, Difficult

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• This earth, burnished by hearing the name, is so certain of love,
that the sky bends unceasingly down, to greet its own light.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Light, Sky, Names

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

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Night, Agony, Remembrance

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• The world is a playground -Indian

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Inspirational, World, Playgrounds

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