Nâzım Hikmet Quotes

However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

Separation isnt time or distance its the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords

Loneliness feels like prison.

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.

The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.

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.

That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.

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.

The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

At eighteen you sleep without memories.

At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.

At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.

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.

My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?

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.

And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.

We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting

Separation isn’t time or distanceit’s the bridge between usfiner than silk thread sharper than swords

moonlight the falsest the most languid the most petit-bourgeoisstrikes meI like it

And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.

The worstis when people - knowingly or not -carry prison inside thems

Haven't you ever thought of livingunconsciously like bears, sniffing the earth, close to pears and the mossy dark, far from human voices and

The cloth cap on my headdoesn't tellwhat's in it.

I can't promise to becalm, dignified, and indifferent, like a rock by the sea...If my heart's going to break, let it break from anger, grief, or

Never mind the stillness -the deep sleeps to

I like the sound of rain more than my

The beeches deep in snow, I walk the dark woodsIn sorrow, sorrow.Your hand, where is your

The strangest of our powersIs the courage to liveKnowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more

Most animals are like people-and like good people

My head bows before the thing you mention.But my heart doesn't speak that lan