The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary? Naz?m Hikmet More Quotes by Naz?m Hikmet More Quotes From Naz?m Hikmet The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet. Naz?m Hikmet seabeautifulchildren However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die. Naz?m Hikmet diesifs Separation isnt time or distance Naz?m Hikmet separationdistancebridges 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. Naz?m Hikmet starslighteye That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender. Naz?m Hikmet defeatproblemfall 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. Naz?m Hikmet flowerspringtwo The strangest of our powers Naz?m Hikmet knowing-nothingdiesknowing 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. Naz?m Hikmet rocksbattletogether Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on. Naz?m Hikmet cancerbabyjobs Loneliness feels like prison. Naz?m Hikmet prisonlonelinessfeels 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. Naz?m Hikmet squirrelslaughingmean My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest? Naz?m Hikmet youthstarscountry 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. Naz?m Hikmet sevenlong-agochildren At eighteen you sleep without memories. Naz?m Hikmet eighteensleepmemories At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder. Naz?m Hikmet pebblesslingshotsheart At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them. Naz?m Hikmet eighteenmemoriesthinking We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting Naz?m Hikmet bloodlettinggoal 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. Naz?m Hikmet fightingchildrenworld And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts. Naz?m Hikmet wifeforgetthinking
