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More Quotes by Nâzım Hikmet
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.
That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.
The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.
At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.
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.
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.
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.
Separation isnt time or distance its the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords
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.