Shams Tabrizi Quotes

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.

Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who is my enemy.

The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.

It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?

Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.

By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.

You may have taken the planet, but you will lose this game!

Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.

The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.

Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun parts fun.

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

My subject is war, and the pity of war.

The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.

No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.

I’m not going anywhere with you, you little shoemaker,” I said (Rachel to Trent)

It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.

Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!

Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.