... kambaqt dil ka zikr bayaan hai yun barbaad...
... jaane kyun dhadkta hai behayaa aaj bhi tere inkaar ke baad...
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... did the sands of time change the language of love while I was busy holding on, caressing 'n worshiping ya... guess I would never know...
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... uske jaane ka gham ab, mera hai mukammal sab...
... ashq sookhe par, dil bhare rahe...
... waqt de marham par, zakhm hare rahe...
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... bepanaah teri chahat mein, jo manzar jannat ka hai naseeb hua...
... ab aaqabat mein uss se, Khuda bhi kahan behtar mukaam dega...
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... anjaan hoon apne mustaqbil se, na malum anjaam kya hoga...
... par jaanta hoon meri har saans rahegi ghulam teri, mujh se azaad hone tak...
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... tujh mein paa kar Khuda, kar raha hoon apni saanson se wafaa...
... jaanta hoon par haath ki lakeeren, karti hai mere khawabon se jafaa...
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... seeking sky for my share, failing again, yet God is too fair...
... waiting forever at end of the line, for a glimpse of heaven, that isn't mine...
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... am trying to find myself by running away from myself... 'n that is a paradox just like I am...
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.... qayamat hui fakat do baar... ek tere aane se pehle, ek tere jaane ke baad...
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... dushmani mehngi pade phir bhi kaun kamzarf gham karta hai...
... mohabbat sasti ho jaye to yakeenan aks khaak mein bikharta hai...
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We don't talk anymore; and I can't understand why...
It's like you gave me wings, then told me it's illegal to fly...
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Absence is to love what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
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... my life has turned around.... earlier I was insane 'coz I was in love... 'n now I am in love 'coz I am insane...
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A few words I live by... Pain is in inevitable but suffering is optional...
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Strangely, a blatant lie can often be the most revealing truth.
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A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of love never...
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If life was devoid of realities there would be no meaning to life...
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I wish I could peak at the last few pages to see how it ends. The journey's too long 'n unpredictable at times...
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... yakeenan Rabb shamil hai lakeeron se hoti meri kashmakash mein...
... aitamaad hai par badlega naseeb na milne wali kinaro ka ek sailaab ke baad...
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mausam ki tarah badalta hai ishq maayne yahan har pal...
zinda hai ehsaas tabhi doob raha hain, bismil hota to taerta yeh bhi teri tarah...
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... deewangi ka sabab kaho ya samjho isse ibaadat ka mazhab...
... jalata hoon khud ko taki roshan rahe shamma mohabbat ki...
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... ya'r lucky if a nightmare ends in few hours... ya'r loki if it doesn't...
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... nahi jaanta kyun hua aks juda ek anjani shaam...
... dhoondta hoon isliye ab main shab mein rahat ka mukaam...
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I realize it's forever impossible for me to believe in the dark side of the sunshine, 'n thus I seek a ray of light in the night revealed...
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... it's true that love doesn't belong to me... but it is truer that I absolutely belong to love... always 'n forever...
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I believe one needs an equal portion each of love 'n compassion, pain 'n passion 'n infinite insanity to write or even enjoy poetry...
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... ya can like 'n unlike... but can never love 'n un-love...
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... an incorrigible or am a dumb brave...
... blessed or is it a fragile pave...
... heaven or am I in the grave..
... Almighty gave but not for what I pray...
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The average nutritional value of promises is roughly zero.
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Kab laut ke aaoge
Israr nahi karta
Itna mere bas mein hai
Main umr ghata loonga
~Shaaz Tamkinat~
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... the purest of pure, forever indestructible, an elixir eternal, die...
... a wasted irreparable, a decaying insanity, still lives a lie...
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... abtar hui meri rooh ne poocha Khuda se kyun kiya mismaar...
... marne de, zakhm nahi, hai kabr yeh, na kured baar baar...
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History segregated the events by tagging the dateline as BC or AD. But love is timeless. Can't split the feelings into a before 'n after...
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Life may have no meaning, or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove...
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers...~Voltaire~
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To fall in love is awfully simple, to fall out of love is simply awful...
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... ain't sure what hurts more... when ya stop loving the person ya trust... or when ya stop trusting the person ya love...
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Absolut is an eternal elixir but inexplicably at the moment it's enacting as a mortal sin... instead of making me stop seeking the answers, it is bringing a total recall of all the inquest which even otherwise I am unable to obliterate... Rabb ji, I pray, please let it be only a temporary phase... all of a sudden, ya can't possibly rob me of the only sanity that I ever found, God's aren't supposed to do that...
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to ya till your life has illustrated it...
~John Keats~
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The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross 'n which to burn...~David Russell~
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It is love when you hold someones hand 'n start walking 'n the person walks with you without asking where 'n why...
~Madonna~
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Life will hand ya a bowl of peeled mangoes 'n peaches. It'll all look the same. Ya can only tell them apart if you taste each piece...
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Dear God...
Please stop treating Love as a replica of the board-game of Snakes 'n Ladders...
Thanks already...
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In life, the one person who brings out the very best in ya 'n who makes ya the strongest ironically also becomes ya'r biggest weakness ever...
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... kabhi sambhala tha jinko palko pe ki unpe aanch na aaye...
... yun nazaren pheri uss rehnuma ne ki apni hi nazar mein ab gir gaya hoon main...
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... jaanta hoon Khuda ka Khuda aur hai, par yakeen nahi karta...
... shiddat aur deewangi ka farq karna aata nahi meri ibaadat ko...
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods...~ Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust, 1957...
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far ya can go without going too far...~Jean Cocteau~
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Aaj kisi ne dil toda toh hum ko jaise dhyan aaya...
jiss ka dil hum ne toda tha woh jane kaisa hoga...
~Javed Akhtar~
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... mehsoos hota hai har hajoom ek sannaata bin tere...
... dil ka khamosh dhadakna bhi ab lagta mujhe shor hai...
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... hairaan nahi hota main ab gar dil tutta hai kisi ka...
... ab toh pyaar ki kamayambi pe chaunk jaata hoon main...
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... nahi janoon se anjaan, khafaa hai par ibaadat se meri...
... uss se pehle naam tera leta hoon, yeh haar Khuda ko naagavaar hai...
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... lakeeron se jo mil rahi hai shikast deewane ke afsaano ko...
... Khuda ko paane ki justaju, iss liye lagti gunaah hai yahan sayaano ko...
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Dear Heart, fall in love when you're ready, not when you're lonely...
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If we go down, we go down together, because when I said best friends, I meant forever...
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never...~Charles Caleb Colton~
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Ranj toh yeh hai ke woh ahed-e-wafaa toot gayaa
Bewafa koi bhi ho, tum na sahi hum hi sahi...
~Javed Akhtar~
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marghat si sunsaan hai, jaise ho kisi veerane mein sannaata shamil...
hairat itni khamoshi mein zindagi ki pukaar shor lagti hai mere Khuda ko...
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There is only so far you can fall, but there is no limit to how high you can soar...
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... how much time does one need to un-soul the soul-mate... years... months... days... kuch ghante... bas ek pal... 'n how does one do it...
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Jaate jaate woh mujhe achi nishani de gaya...
Umar bhar dohraonga aisi kahani degaya...
~Javed Akhtar~
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Khawab ke gaon mein paley hain hum...
Paani chhalni mein le chaley hain hum...
~Javed Akhtar~
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Those who danced were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music...
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