“Only the dead has seen th end of war”

“Reason is not a tyrannical God like Allah, or a bloodthirsty demon like Bhowanee; Reason does not speak in my ears but gives me ears to listen with.”

“Time is such a cheat. The more importance you give it, the less you have of it.”

“If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him;There's a stranger in the cityAnd he has many things to say.”

“There were people dying everywhere getting massacred in every town and village, there were people being picked up and thrown into dark jails in unknown parts, there were dungeons in the city where hundreds of young men were kept in heavy chains and from where many never emerged alive, there were thousands who had disappeared leaving behind women with photographs and perennial waiting, there were multitudes of dead bodies on the roads, in hospital beds, in fresh martyrs' graveyards and scattered casually on the snow of mindless borders.”

“रोने से और इश्क़ में बेबाक हो गये,धोये गये हम ऐसे कि बस पाक हो गये.कहता है कौन नाला-ए-बुलबुल को बे-असर,परदे में गुल कि लाख जिगर चाक हो गये.करने गये थे उससे तग़ाफ़ुल का हम गिला,की एक ही निगाह कि बस ख़ाक हो गये.इस रंग से उठाई कल उसने असद की लाश,दुश्मन भी जिसको देखके ग़मनाक हो गये.”

“Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane”