More Quotes by Nâzım Hikmet
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.
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.
At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.
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.
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.
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.
The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?
And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.
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.
