Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib famous quotes

I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life!
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Soul #World #Body

Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Forget #Easy #Humane

When nothing was, then God was there, Had nothing been God would have been; My being has defeated me, Had I not been, what would have been.
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Defeated

The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more.
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Lying #Perception #Worship

Oh, Lord, it is not the sins I have committed that I regret, but those which I have had no opportunity to commit
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Regret #Opportunity #Sin

Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring.
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Spring #Autumn #Men

Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies.
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Night #Agony #Remembrance

In the deadly sweep Of every wave, A thousand dangers lie in wait.
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Lying #Waiting #Wave

The world is a playground -Indian
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Inspirational #World #Playgrounds

Love knows no difference between life and death The one who gives you a reason to live is also the one who takes your breath away
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Love #Differences #Giving

For how tiny the world, This ant's egg-and the sky!
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Garden #Eggs #Sky

The world is no more than the Beloved's face. And the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist.
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Spiritual #Desire #Faces

Love demands patience, desire is restless; What color shall I paint the heart, until you savage it? You shall not ignore me when the time comes, I know, but I may turn to dust before the news reaches you.
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Heart #Dust #Color

If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Cities #Tongue #Fetch

He gave me heaven and earth, and assumed I'd be satisfied; Actually I was too embarrassed to argue. The spiritual seekers are tired, two or three at each stage of the path. The rest who have given up never knew your address at all. There are so many in this gathering who wish the candle well. But if the being of the candle is melting, what can the sorrow-sharers do?
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Spiritual #Tired #Two

This earth, burnished by hearing the name, is so certain of love,
that the sky bends unceasingly down, to greet its own light.
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Sky #Names #Light

Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Wise #Men #Play

Whereas it is difficult for everything to work out easily, A man cannot even afford to be a human
-- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

#Men #Work Out #Difficult