Munia Khan Quotes

You don't need a sad soul
to feel the beauty of a dead grave
Just stay with the pale moon
when darkness wants the night to be brave

Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world

I'm looking for you
into that silver
spoon where I taste my reflection
to feel the touch of your untouchables
- from the poem Looking For You

We wait for the new year to appear to us like the hopeful sun bringing aspiring light to an eager world

An hour is indeed a long time when you count every second

Sorry for being stuck in the traffic
of my mind's stressful road
The world seems very pornographic
I can't carry the load

In a cruel world kindness is certainly an unsafe virtue

Nothing is perpetual in this world. Not even your everlasting soul!

Courage cannot be unveiled without reality

Water is such a lifesaver into which we cannot breathe but without taking it into us we cannot live

A little tranquil lake is more significant to my life than any big city in the world

Pets reflect you like mirrors. When you are happy, you can see your dog smiling and when you are sad, your cat cries.

Dawn and dusk are mutual friends of the sun; one opens the door for him to a brand new day and the other one has to shut it to embrace the darkness of night.

Flowers enshrine my heart between their petals; that's why my heartbeats love them so much

We have so much to learn from a fallen teardrop which is wiped away from our cheek…never to be felt again

I want you to be my black vulture:forever monogamous!

Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidity
Let yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity

Milk is the only juice in a world of cows.

Nothing is dark when you embosom your own light within you

Spring can still be felt
even if you lay under the bed
Frozen heart can melt
in coldness when wintry love misled

Failure is successful when you fail.

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair.
To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

Learn to lose your destiny to find where it leads you

I never feel bored as long as my mind is with me

Nature is the guardian of Africa. While the sun lights the African sky in day time, the moon begs the world to help her lighting Africa in the night

Night never needs a shade
but it requires to fade
into the grin of twinkling stars
where light is just a glint of scars

We must yield to the power of words. Even God has chosen words to communicate with his creatures like us

Prayer is like coffee for my soul in the morning

A bird, unable to fly, is still a bird; but a human unable to love is an inexpensive stone: like a piece of uric acid stone

Do not underestimate the muteness of a tree. The rustling leaves of it can sing with the rival wind that many of us cannot do.

My pillows are dreaming, not me.With my eyes closed I only try to feel how they dream.

Some memories should be dead as they are like living corpse in mortal's bed

Fear no more as long as her memory surrounds you like a ghost ... cry no more as long as she weeps for you like a willow.

Smile is the arch of an arrowed heart
Tears are waters to make pain's life start

Breathe as long as the sky is alive

Strong anger can only make you weaker than you already are

I've become your heartbeat making you mine
Upon every kiss of passion our souls shine

Honestly, all crows are not ravens

If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again

Please let me know if I am not here
Let me know if I fail to find you there
For before the dawn I leave the night behind me
And before my heart I let you leave me behind.

My life is never influenced by death because I am full of resurrections after so many spiritual and emotional demises

Time appears to be most wasted when someone seeks truth in lies

I love to chase my shadow to feel how it rests in the dark.

He belongs to a whorehouse, not in my heart

Being empty makes me whole sometimes. I wonder if every hollow hole has its own solidity of fulfillment

Life's contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity

Forms of love are so many. Just make sure your heart can fit in it.

Wild waves rise and fall when they arrive
And that's what makes the calm sea alive

I never feel alone realizing the fact that my life is my only life partner

Dream is an expensive ornament to adorn your hope

Aren't we all homeless without a home inside our mind?

Moon is a superstar to a neon light
Both are in doubt of their lifeless plight
One envies the sun, the other one's scared
But to face the dark they're always prepared

People don't lie to contaminate truth. They lie to pollute their hearts.

Never depend on a road, depend on your strides

Unfortunately in today's world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man.

Death is buried there into death
Hunger strikes on its own last breath
No spine to shiver, no heart talks
At life's craving poverty mocks

From the poem 'Exhumation

If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them?

Mind hates to seep in delusion soaking faintly discolored obsession.

Don't let your dreams be forsaken by the starry nights

I'm looking for you
in the bare corridor
where my shadow is the only passerby
harmonizing an unsettling whisper:
echoed through my chiming thoughts
From the poem 'Looking For You

I used to be a 'malice';people called me Alice- in Blunderland !

In the vast oceanic universe starfishes are the stars in the sky of the shore...

A torpid heart in agony needs a pen to bleed

Every morning
before the birds start
trilling me their stories,
I give birth to a new love
through my same old heart
when a lake's placidity
finds life in the swans breath
Only for you...

From the poem 'Only For You

You cannot taste a song
but you can feel the tune relishing your heart
where strings of music belong.

The taste of moon is like honey to all honeymooners, but after some years does the moon's scar make it bitter?

his abuse
makes her an anvil
without spark

No food is edible, if you don't feel like eating
Standing is incredible, if you hate sitting

When we do not know our heart's reason
Perhaps living inside the cell of its prison
Is the best way to breathe for the life of love
With tears of the void from a distance above

The empty chair in your heart should remain empty forever rather than someone unworthy sitting in there

Death's life should have listened to the moonly whispers of breathing in the coldest nights

My body weeps to live
when you make me believe
that someday I will be dead
soul sleepless in graveyard's bed

Each tear longs to kiss sorrow

Sturdy swimmers afloat on water-couch
Beneath the heavy bill their treasured pouch
Fishes pray for them to fly far away
Inland lakes toast to the Pelican's day

The real satire starts when I'm shockingly mocked,not mockingly shocked.

When you 'lie' to me, you don't 'lie down' or lay.
Even after the game you still want to play.

Wounds are inspirations to make us stronger than the sun which blazes the day to be longer

Departure of a year welcomes so many new memories

Love's voice reverberates with forgiveness across the room of our heart

Being human doesn't make us humans. Humanity is something else only a kind and loving heart can possess

Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world.

A dead man's vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being's pride.

The answer of life struggles in between two kinds of people-
those who live to dream
and those who dream to live
Ask them the question about death
if they can truly conceive

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.

It's been raining outside and I feel like a sad poet, hating my imagination pissing on the roof.

City life can manufacture depression with no expiry date

Distance matters only when you fail to cover it through your mind

Plenty of foods inside my stomach.Soul is empty.

Only mountains can feel the frozen warmth of the sun through snow's gentle caress on their peaks

It doesn't matter how green a blade of grass is expected to be, when it's already smashed beneath the feet.

Faith is the only belief which remains alive between heaven and hell.

Stop being afraid of fear, let it be scared of you

Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth.

Blood is everywhere..
Vultures take shelter beneath the tanks;
for the fumed sky is unsafe for their avian flight to prey on the Palestinian flesh.

Happiness is the most magical thing in this world the amount of which remains the same, even after distributing it amongst innumerable unhappy people.

Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans.

The center of my sins
stuck behind a blocked door,
circled by hollow deeds
spread on my lifetime's floor

Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them

That's not me.That's my duality!

Death is God when love is mine.
Prayer preys when we're divine