List of Nizar Qabbani Quotes

O Sultan, My Master, If My Clothes Are Ripped And Torn It Is Because Your Dogs With Claws Are Allowed To Tear Me.

My Master... Say All You Wish Of Me. It Does Not Matter To Me:shallow.. Stupid.. Crazy.. Simple Minded. It Does Not Concern Me Anymore. For Whoever Writes About Her Concerns. In The Logic Of Men Is Called A Stupid Woman. And Didn't I Tell You In The Beginning That I Am A Stupid Woman?

It's Painful To Listen To The Barking Of Dogs.

We Killed You And It Was Not New For Us, We Killed The Companions Of The Prophet And The Friends Of God. O How Many Messengers Did We Slay? O How Many Imams? We Killed You And You Prayed The Night Prayer, As All Of Our Days Are Struggle - And All Of Our Days Are Karbala.

We Praise Like Frogs, Swear Like Frogs, Turn Midgets Into Heroes, And Heroes Into Scum: We Never Stop And Think.

The Word Is A Bouncing Ball The Ruler Throws From His Balcony. The Word Has Been A Shot Of Morphine. Rulers Calm Their People With Speeches.

We Are A Thick Skinned People With Emtpy Souls. We Spend Our Days Playing Dice, Chess, Or Sleeping - And We Say We Are The Best People That Ever Came To Mankind?

Light Is More Important Than The Lantern, The Poem More Important Than The Notebook

Never Believe A Man Can Change A Woman Those Men Are Pretenders Who Think That They Created Women From One Of Their Ribs

And All The Countries Seemed The Same, That I Don't See Myself There, And I Don't See Myself Here.

Our Shouting Is Louder Than Our Actions, Our Swords Are Taller Than Us, This Is Our Tragedy. In Short We Wear The Cape Of Civilisation But Our Souls Live In The Stone Age

When A Man Is In Love How Can He Use Old Words? Should A Woman Desiring Her Lover Lie Down With Grammarians And Linguists? I Said Nothing To The Woman I Loved But Gathered Love's Adjectives Into A Suitcase And Fled From All Languages.