Here for you in this article are what I have collected for you from the most beautiful expressions of Mahmoud Darwish. I hope you like them.
The most beautiful phrases of Mahmoud Darwish
- Can I choose my dreams, lest I dream of what does not come true?
- As for me, I will enter the mulberry tree, where the silkworm will turn me into a silk thread, and I will enter the needle of a mythical woman, and then I will fly away like a shawl with the wind.
- History mocks its victims and their heroes...it looks at them and passes by.
- I came but did not arrive...and I came but did not return.
- I loved you forcibly, not because you are the most beautiful, but because you are the deepest, so a lover of beauty is usually a fool.
- One day I will become what I want.. One day I will become a bird, and I will be free from my non-existence.. Whenever the wings burn, I get closer to the truth, and emerge from the ashes.. I am the dialogue of dreamers, I turned away from my body and from myself to continue my first journey to meaning, so it burned me and disappeared.. I am absence. I am the heavenly expelled one.
- We have no hand in longing.. and in distance we have a thousand hands.. Peace be upon you, I missed you very much.. And peace be upon me in what I miss.
- There is a philosophy in indifference, it is an attribute of hope.
- We have our smallest dreams, as if we wake up from sleep free from disappointment.. We did not dream of disobedient things.. We are alive and remaining, and the dream remains.
- Forgetting is training the imagination to respect reality.
- There is love that passes us by, so it does not know, nor do we know.
- It is my misfortune that I forgot that the night is long, and it is my good fortune that I remembered you until the morning.
- They taught you to beware of joy, because its betrayal is cruel.
- There is no room left in the modern language for celebration, for everything that will be was.
- I don't remember my heart unless love splits it in half or dries up from the thirst of love.
- I wish we could love less so as not to suffer more.
- My soul is light and my body is heavy with memories and people.
- I will praise this new morning.. I will forget all the nights and walk to the neighbor’s rose and snatch from it its way of joy.
- The night, mother, is a hungry thug wolf that chases the stranger wherever he goes.
- No matter how you go with the wind, I know how to bring you back.. I know where your holiday comes from, so I go.
- Tell the absence you lacked me and I came to complete you.
- How happy a person is when he does not say goodbye to anyone and does not wait for anyone.
- And whenever I searched for them, I found nothing but my strange self in them.
- There is nothing wrong with our past being better than our present.. but it is completely miserable for our present to be better than our tomorrow.. Oh, how vast our abyss is.
- When I was thirsty, I asked for water from my enemy, but he did not hear me, so I spoke your name and quenched my thirst.
- What a beautiful coincidence.. It is free from waiting.
- I love talking to you even though I don't have anything to say.
- Did we have to fall from a high height and see our blood on our hands to realize that we are not angels as we thought?
- The causes of death are many, including the pain of life.
- We do not repent of our dreams, no matter how often they are broken.
- With all my joy, I hide my tears.
- Mom.. I will not call you a woman, I will call you everything.
- You and my coffee are similar... in pleasure, bitterness, and addiction.
- I want you with me, a fantasy that walks on two feet, and a real rock that flies with the wink of an eye.
- I will continue to love you until I leave you.. If he is in the water, I do not fear the drowning person, and if he is on land, I do not fear the swords of the road.
- Your eyes are windows to a dream that does not come, and in every dream I restore a dream and dream.
- Oh, my proud wound, my homeland is not a bag and I am not a traveler.. I am the lover and the earth is my lover.
- And I once said to him angrily, “How will you live tomorrow?” He said, “I have nothing to do with tomorrow. It is a thought that does not come to me while I am like this. Nothing will change me, just as I have not changed anything. So do not block the sun from me.” So I said to him: “I am not Alexander the Exalted, and I am not Diogenes.” He said: “But in indifference.” Philosophy is one of the characteristics of hope.
- I sit at home, neither happy nor sad in between... and I don't care if I know that I'm really me or nobody.
- Today I celebrate one day since the previous day... and tomorrow I celebrate two days since yesterday... and I toast yesterday to the memory of the coming day... this is how I continue my life.
- Maybe she died... Death loves suddenly, like me, and death, like me, does not like to wait.
- As you think about others far away, think about yourself... Say, “I wish I were a candle in the darkness.”
- I am a woman, nothing less and nothing more, so be the measure of nostalgia if you want.. As for me, I like to be loved as I am, not a colorful picture in the newspaper or a melodic idea in the poem Among the Elks.. I hear Laila’s distant cry from the bedroom: Don’t leave me a prisoner of a rhyme in the nights of the tribes. ..Do not let me tell them that I am a woman, nothing more and nothing less.
- Between a minute I admit to forgetting and a minute I try to experience that, massacres take place inside me and they don't stop.
- I fear the eyes that can penetrate my banks.. They may see my bare heart.. I fear my confession.
- I am from there and I have memories.. I was born as people are born.. I have a mother and a house with many windows.. I have brothers.. friends.. and a prison with a cold window.. I have a wave that was caught by seagulls.. I have my own scene.. I have extra grass.. and I have a moon. In the farthest reaches of speech, sustenance for birds, and an eternal olive tree.
