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I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.
― Julio Cortázar
Beautiful
Thinking
Littles
My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?
― Nâzım Hikmet
Country
Stars
Youth
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.
― Nâzım Hikmet
Beautiful
Children
Sea
The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.
― Nâzım Hikmet
Knowing
Dies
Knowing Nothing
However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
― Nâzım Hikmet
Dies
Ifs
Wherever
That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.
― Nâzım Hikmet
Fall
Problem
Defeat
Separation isnt time or distance its the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords
― Nâzım Hikmet
Distance
Bridges
Separation
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.
― Nâzım Hikmet
Spring
Flower
Two
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.
― Nâzım Hikmet
Mean
Squirrels
Laughing
Loneliness feels like prison.
― Nâzım Hikmet
Loneliness
Prison
Feels
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.
― Nâzım Hikmet
Stars
Eye
Light
We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting
― Nâzım Hikmet
Goal
Bloodletting
Reach
And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.
― Nâzım Hikmet
Beautiful
Words
Spoken
At eighteen you sleep without memories.
― Nâzım Hikmet
Memories
Sleep
Eighteen
don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.
― Nâzım Hikmet
Thinking
Wife
Forget
At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.
― Nâzım Hikmet
Heart
Slingshots
Pebbles
At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.
― Nâzım Hikmet
Memories
Thinking
Eighteen
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.
― Nâzım Hikmet
Children
Seven
Long Ago
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.
― Nâzım Hikmet
Rocks
Battle
Together
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.
― Nâzım Hikmet
Children
Fighting
World
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