More Quotes by Nâzım Hikmet
That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.
However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?
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.
At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.
The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
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.
The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet. The most beautiful child hasn't grown up yet. The most beautiful days we haven't seen yet. And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you I haven't said yet.
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.
