Akif Kichloo Quotes

People often compare
depression to drowning.

That is not even close.

Consider sitting in a dark room
scared and confused -
Choking on something you
know nothing about,
For reasons you cannot comprehend.

That is depression.

When you are drowning,
you can still flail your arms,
call for help, and try your best
to keep afloat.

In depression, you do nothing.
Absolutely nothing. ~ Akif Kichloo

She is a woman. No matter how hard you think she has grown, she always has her softer parts. Feel her there. ~ Akif Kichloo

When the night
comes to break my heart,
I think of you. ~ Akif Kichloo

The universe on your skin is empty
from all the silence on your tongue.
Forgive yourself. Let your body heal
from all the wounds you did not inflict
on yourself. Drop the sword you carry
on your shoulder for self-defense.
Lower the armor you hold high up
for protection. Those who harmed you
are not going to come back. Those who
have left never intended to return. ~ Akif Kichloo

Find yourself. And if you don't like what you see, re-create yourself. But first, please, find yourself. ~ Akif Kichloo

They came and they left.
You cried, but you stood your ground.
You stayed tethered to hope as well as
committed to dignified dreams
and little victories of day-to-day life.

You felt different.
Then you started to change.
Your smile returned with reticence
before completely taking over your face.

Today, you are no longer afraid to let that smile be there,
and now you understand it was not about them.
It was never about anyone else.
This was about you from the day you were born.
This was about you learning to love yourself -
not letting the inferiority of the external corrupt
the piety of the internal.

This was your personal revolution.
This was the uprising of your lifetime.

And you won. ~ Akif Kichloo

That window which connects you
to the agony of other people;
that's your soul.
Close that window and you are soulless.
And a soulless man is vestigial.
He hears but cannot listen. He sees but cannot notice.
And everyone knows:
when eyes and ears become jobless,
We look for excuses.
We hear angels and devils speak. We confabulate.
We make up gods
and lick their feet.

- Superstitions ~ Akif Kichloo

Love me like my demons do. ~ Akif Kichloo

I don't know if you know, but sometimes, hearts have to love in pieces too. ~ Akif Kichloo

we were never a match;
always a marvelous misfit. ~ Akif Kichloo

The art of leaving and the art of loving are not the same. ~ Akif Kichloo

The opposite of grief is not laughter or happiness or joy. It is love. It is love. It is love. ~ Akif Kichloo

I have a body too young and a mind full of years. Everything in me has witnessed its own ending. I have lived through nightmares and perished in blissful dreams. What all that's left - eats me from within but still melts me from without, and that is where my humility takes birth. ~ Akif Kichloo

I engaged in the wildest shenanigans just to distract myself from the horror surrounding me; I was acting according to the motto: if insanity laughs at you, laugh back! ~ Akif Pirincci

Animals are good human beings and human beings are bad animals ~ Akif Pirincci

Everyone wants to rule the world . . . Really, absolutely everyone. That's what it's all about, isn't it? That's what it's always about in the end. And every species believes it's number one. Every individual is firmly convinced that he or she alone has the right to ascend to the throne and issue orders to get rid of others. And in reality everyone is fooling themselves, because up there on the throne it's lonely and cold. ~ Akif Pirincci

Animals are good humans and humans are bad animals. ~ Akif Pirincci