"Our lives pass from us like the wind, and why Should wise men grieve to know that they must die? The Judas blossom fades, the lovely face Of light is dimmed, and darkness takes its place."

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Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.58, Penguin

Abolqasem Ferdowsi

#Wise Quotes #Men Quotes #Grieving Quotes

“I like movies I can relate to.”
“We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.”
“O wild, dark flower of woman, Deep rose of my desire, An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.”
“Laughter is life-giving. It makes you breathe.”

Source : Kristin Chenoweth (2009). “A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages”, p.41, Simon and Schuster
“There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness. When they encounter one another, when they press their foreheads against the bark of a centuries-old tree...their eyes well with tears that fall easily to the ground. The soil needs this water. Grief is but a gate, and our tears a kind of key opening a place of wonder thats been locked away. Suddenly we notice a sustaining resonance between the drumming heart within our chest and the pulse rising from the ground”
“It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”

Source : "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" bk. 1, l. 317 (1955)
“I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.”
“Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.”

Source : BiographyPersonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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