Quotes from Mahmoud Darwish

we are seized by the urge to weep For one who died for nothing.

I have passed by many eyes, but I only got lost in yours.

How many times shall things be over, Father?

It is for the killer to kill, the fighter to fight, and the bird to sing. As for me, I halt my quest for figurative language. I bring my search for meaning to a complete stop because the essence of war is to degrade symbols and bring human relations, space, time, and the elements back to a state of nature, making us rejoice over water gushing on the road from a broken pipe.

They asked, "do you love her to death?" I said, "speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life.

My imagination will give out before I finish the journey, I don't have the energy to make my dream real.

And I want I want to live And to forget you

Grandfather! I am the last of the living in this desert.

A University degree, four books, and hundreds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. You wrote me 'good morning' and I read it as 'I love you'.

they asked "do you love her to death? i said "speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life

You are my truth and I your question. We have inherited nothing but our names And you are my playground and I your shade at the crossroads of the anthem.

If it was a piece of paper, I would tear it. If it was a bottle, I would break it. If it was a wall, I would tear it down, but it is my heart.

Grasp your own reality and grasp your name and learn how to write your own proof.

My love, I fear the silence of your hands.

Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.