Musings Quotes

“While we hear Carl Jung's jazzy humming and Nietzsche's dance steps intermittently during our musings, we can willingly tear down the spread of depression from all the gray zones around and allow the sun to shine and warm up the hearts' expectations. ("A handful of dust")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”
― R.D. Ronald

“Sentences confined to limited definitions
meanings restricted to limited words
knotted in experiences and sensations
musings, smiles and the eyes;
and holding the entire love
of Creation in my heart
how may I offer you one?”
― Suman Pokhrel, शून्य मुटुको धड्कनभित्र) [Shoonya Mutuku Dhadkanbhitra]

“Witnessing people's grief or the state against them moves me deeply and inspires me to write my thoughts and feelings.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.”
― R.D. Ronald

“Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“I only wrote prose before I met you.
My musings were superfluous and serious as well.
But now the words dance with me.
I sing with them
and we create poetry.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“A shape across space beckoned her. Her spirits sank. She thought of the other world; the temporariness of this existence. Oh! The wall, a cold wall stood between this Emma and that; this stormy morning and the sprightly spring afternoon. She walked along the solid wall for an opening. There were no exits. None at all. The sky cracked up into terrifying thunder sounds.”
― Mehreen Ahmed, The Pacifist

“Astrology is for those bored by astronomy, but fascinated with themselves.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, Celestial Mechanics: A Tale for a Mid-Winter Night

“The clock of time is a wild child, one that can neither be controlled nor disciplined, it simply slips away from your hand while you grapple trying to hold it back.”
― Priyansha Vashi

“No living creature should have to feel so exposed in death, washed up on the beach in mangled meat of bloody distortion.”
― Mehreen Ahmed, The Pacifist

“The lightbulb in my bathroom has blown [...] at night it's dark there in a really weird way, I can stand for ages looking at everything in there, the towels hanging from the hooks, the toothbrush in the glass, the toothpaste, the razor, the shower curtain, and it's like I'm not in the room, like I shouldn't be there, like I'm seeing things how they are when I'm not there, do you understand what I mean? And that I shouldn't be, that somehow I'm a hindrance, but that's almost why I stay there.”
― Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories

“Oh, e-books, there are things about us humans you’ll never understand. Sometimes we need something gorgeous to hold in our hands.”
― Ann Patchett

“Who could say what went on, at sunrise, in the thick woods below the planet-searching dome of the Observatory, which saw only space and stars?”
― Tanith Lee, The Book of the Damned

“So, I resolved to walk the path of memories. Often memories are small lessons, teaching you about virtue, friendship, and longsuffering.”
― Tori Easter, Max Lightning and the Historic Mystery

“I will race you to the top and then we will drink bubbles and smile at the 360 vision of the world, from the top of peace mountain.”
― Tracy Malone

“Always, in the end, only we can answer our own questions”
― Todd McCaffrey, Dragon's Time

“The wait, that
irksome action of staying put until an event or time, the period where one
begins to ask where it all went wrong, question how it happened, why it
happened, and if it would ever be right again.”
― Timi Waters, Red Lines

“Some paths remind you to remain still”
― Swetha Pujari

“Down by the stream, Rose gathered many unknown little flowers and twigs. Nearby haystacks at the centre of the barn, nothing stirred: nt even a piece of straw fell out of place. Emma dived deep into the pond. The water of the pond imparted a greenish tinge on her floating body,”
― Mehreen Ahmed, The Pacifist

“Their eyes wide open, they stared into empty nothingness. There was silence everywhere. Apart from a few twinkling of stars, masses of dark void pressed down upon the atmosphere. Moments passed slowly. She could not sleep a wink. A pale light peeled the darkness off. She felt she was in slumber-land; a land of the living dead - then thoughts returned: an anguish; life appeared to be too short; it melted away so easily into bleak oblivion. She felt that she passed through space, a path designated by ethereal time. Her spirits soared like a falcon...despaired...and more...it fell into a dungeon of dark depression. Laying there. like a fallen log of a dead pine, she heard from her bed a roaring noise of the westerly knocking on the shutters of the window. It was like an ancient calling of Nemesis to wake her up to the fact that surely an end was closing in.”
― Mehreen Ahmed, The Pacifist

“With the decline of the United States as the world’s leader, I find it important to look around our globe for intelligent people who have the depth of understanding that could perhaps chart a way to the future. One such person is Bernard-Henri Lévy a French philosopher who was born in Béni Saf, French Algeria on November 5, 1948. . The Boston Globe has said that he is "perhaps the most prominent intellectual in France today." Although his published work and political activism has fueled controversies, he invokes thought provoking insight into today’s controversial world and national views.

As a young man and Zionist he was a war correspondent for “Combat” newspaper for the French Underground. Following the war Bernard attended Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris and in 1968; he graduated with a degree in philosophy from the famous École Normale Supérieure. This was followed by him traveling to India where he joined the International Brigade to aid Bangladeshi freedom fighters.

Returning to Paris, Bernard founded the ‘New Philosophers School.’ At that time he wrote books bringing to light the dark side of French history. Although some of his books were criticized for their journalistic character and unbalanced approach to French history, but most respected French academics took a serious look at his position that Marxism was inherently corrupt. Some of his musings include the predicament of the Kurds and the Shame of Aleppo, referring to the plight of the children in Aleppo during the bloody Syrian civil war. Not everyone agrees with Bernard, as pointed out by an article “Why Does Everyone Hate Bernard-Henri Lévy?” However he is credited with nearly single handedly toppling Muammar Gaddafi. His reward was that in 2008 he was targeted for assassination by a Belgium-based Islamist militant group.

Looking like a rock star and ladies man, with his signature dark suits and unbuttoned white shirt, he said that “democracies are not run by the truth,” and notes that the American president is not the author of the anti-intellectual movement it, but rather its product. He added that the anti-intellectualism movement that has swept the United States and Europe in the last 12 months has been a long time coming. The responsibility to support verified information and not publicize fake news as equal has been ignored. He said that the president may be the heart of the anti-intellectual movement, but social media is the mechanism! Not everyone agrees with Bernard; however his views require our attention. If we are to preserve our democracy we have to look at the big picture and let go of some of our partisan thinking. We can still save our democracy, but only if we become patriots instead of partisans!”
― Captain Hank Bracker, "Salty & Saucy Maine"

“Sometimes, whether a man lived or died was down to luck. He did not know if that realization made him value his own life more or less. If death could come because you chose the wrong door leading out into the sun, perhaps there was no sense to any of it - just the fifth horseman. He shrugged, putting such thoughts aside.”
― Conn Iggulden, Bloodline

“It is a passing strange, George said. In the summer, I complained about the heat. I remember it was unbearable, but the memory no longer seems truly real. With the white ground and frost in the air, I convince myself I would give anything to sweat once more - and if I did, I do not doubt I would yearn to return to this cold. Man is a fickle creature, Richard.”
― Conn Iggulden

“I wanted to outwake her, oblivious to the fact that night never sleeps.”
― Mallika Chawla

“Rabt ho gar khaamushi ka phir ye hona chahiye Lab pe jo aata nahin aankhon mein dekhna chahiye

रब्त हो गर खामुशी का फिर ये होना चाहिए लब पे जो आता नहीं आंखों में दिखना चाहिए

Khud kaha tha auraten kamzor hain hamne to phir

Aadmi ko aadmi ka khoon piina chahiye

खुद कहा था औरतें कमज़ोर हैं हमने तो फिर आदमी को आदमी का खून पीना चाहिए

इस जमाने में जहां mamta bhi jhoothi ho sake Is zamane mein bhi tujhko ishq sachha chahiye

इस ज़माने में जहां ममता भी झूठी ही सके उस ज़माने में भी तुझको इश्क़ सच्चा चाहिए

Hain azal se hi hamen Farhaad banne ki talab Aur ziyaada ishq se hamko bhala kya chahiye

हैं अज़ल से ही हमें फरहाद बनने की तलब और ज़ियादा इश्क़ से हमको भला क्या चाहिए

Josh mein sab par katar kar rakh diye hamne magar Ab falak tak pahunchne ko ek gana chahiye

जोश में सब पर कतर कर रख दिए हमने मगर अब फलक तक पहुँचने को एक जाना चाहिए

Kaun kahta hai ki jitega to khush ho jaayenge Sher Kehne ke liye umeed paspaa chahiye

कौन कहता है कि जीतेंगे तो खुश हो जाएंगे शेर कहने के लिए मम्मी पापा चाहिए

Maine marham se kaha dikhla tu hamko mojza Zakhm to bharte hi hai naasoor bharna chahiye

मैंने मरहम से कहा दिखला तू हमको मोजिज़ा ज़ख्म तो भरते ही है नासूर भरना चाहिए

Misr ke bazaar mein naadan kharha Yusuf mira Aur bina sauda kiye usko Zulaikha chahiye

मिस्र के बाज़ार में नादां खड़ा यूसुफ मिरा
और बिना सौदा किए उसको जुलैख़ा चाहिए

Aye khuda Sadiq ko tujhse kya gila jurrat siva Saath Mein sat kar nadi se ik gharaunda chahiya

आये खुदा सादिक़ की तुझसे क्या गिला जुर्रत सिवा साथ में सट कर नदी से इक घरौंदा चाहिए”
― Taikhum Sadiq

“Sometimes, the light gets blinded by its own light that it fails to reach the 'only one' taken away by the darkness.”
― t_r_a_v_e_l_l_e_r

“Why is it that a worm can regrow most of its body, but we can't replace so much as a finger? I am left with the troubling conclusion that the worm's survival may, in the grand scheme of things, be more important than my own.”
― Amy Stewart, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

“With each second passing by I realise I am moving towards my death. But then I also understand how important it is to untangle yourself from everything that is unnecessary and unworthy of this life. Like a room filled with all the noisy sound you didn't want to hear and everything lying around you don't know why but it is just there because you were lost in the moment thinking about something stupid and when you took hold of things you find everything was shattering down and falling into the ground. You being bewildered run around crying, 'hilfe hilfe' and suddenly out of a dream you wake up and question the sanctity of your life. You give that confused look like you nod when you look at your reflection in the mirror and then you turn around, there is a room with everything scattered in bits and pieces, don't know why and you press hard both of your ears with your delicate hands trying to stop the noise coming out of your mind.”
― Gaurav S Kaintura

“I'll pay any price in my power if you help him. Anything."
"Any price," Moiraine mused, half to herself. "We will speak of prices later, Rand, if at all. I can make no promises. Your Wisdom knows what she is about. I will do what I can, but it is beyond my power to stop the Wheel from turning.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World