Nizar Qabbani Quotes

And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.

A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.

Don't love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow.

Days will pass, and you’ll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality.

My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky

Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.

The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : 'Here is your home country.'

The most dangerous heart disease: strong memory

Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

There is who loves you quietly, and respects you quietly, and wishes you privately, and walks away when he sees you busy with someone other than him, and his ego restrains him from getting near you, and contents himself with the love for the sake of love

Life doesn't stop after losing someone, but it goes on without them differently.

And I fear that my place gets taken by some other one, very lucky and not too shy, who flirts with your eyes while I’m the one who’s crazy about them.

In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.

There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned.

Some are like the Moon, good looking, but only when they're away from you.

Don’t lose a woman that has seen your flaws and still love you.

Kill him, then hug him. Men are more faithful when dead.

Dive into the sea, or stay away

What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.

Our enemies did not cross our borders They crept through our weaknesses like ants.

Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab children, Don't read about our suffocated generation, We are a hopeless case. We are as worthless as a water-melon rind. Dont read about us, Dont ape us, Dont accept us, Dont accept our ideas, We are a nation of crooks and jugglers. Arab children, Spring rain, Corn ears of the future, You are the generation That will overcome defeat.

never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs

We are a thick skinned people with emtpy souls. We spend our days playing dice, chess, or sleeping - and we say we are the best people that ever came to mankind?

We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons