Quotes from Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

When nothing was, then God was there, Had nothing been God would have been; My being has defeated me, Had I not been, what would have been.

I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life!

Love knows no difference between life and death The one who gives you a reason to live is also the one who takes your breath away

Alas, not all things in life are easy; Even man struggles to be human.

The world is no more than the Beloved's face. And the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist.

Love cannot be seeded into someone. It is a fire that is difficult to kindle but once it takes on, it is equally difficult to extinguish.

This earth, burnished by hearing the name, is so certain of love, that the sky bends unceasingly down, to greet its own light.

Whereas it is difficult for everything to work out easily, A man cannot even afford to be a human