“Beauty is the biggest enemy of attitude”
Source: The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse
“اس دوغلی دنیا میں انسان کا من چاہے کتنا ہی میلا ہو اس کا تن ضرور اجلا ہونا چاہیے ۔ بندے کے دل میں چاہے کتنا ہی کھوٹ ہو اس کے چہرے اور صورت میں کوئی کھوٹ نہیں ہونا چاہیے۔”
Source: Parizaad / پری زاد
“I travel to seek beauty, and remind myself to seek magic, In others, and then myself.”
Source: Last words for the road
“Reading verses is like taking in the beauty of nature or the love of our life, one glance is never enough, like our most cherished song played in a loop for hours together.”
Source: By the River Mandovi
“مرد کی شکل اور شخصیت کوئی نہیں دیکھتا۔ سب اس کا رتبہ اور عہدہ پرکھتے ہیں۔ دولت مرد کے ہر عیب، ہر خامی پر پردہ ڈال دیتی ہے۔”
Source: Parizaad / پری زاد
“Jackson Pollock and Hugh Hefner both rose to prominence in the 1950s, though Pollock’s appeal was that no one understood him, and Hefner’s appeal was that no one misunderstood him. When Modern men think of art, they tend to think of such highs and lows. In the midst of this daring game of extremes, art lost the common touch.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“She was a wild ocean. And he had always seen people giving up while trying to swim in her and swim back to the shore before they could drown. He always hesitated about that adventure. He was scared of failing to swim, and drowning to death. But he was never able to stop thinking about how the adventure could end up. He finally made his mind up and started swimming. And eventually, he gave up against the waves and the storms she created and he began to drown. But the moment he stopped fighting to survive, she slowly embraced him inside her arms. And he began to realise that everything was very different than what he had always imagined. He could feel every breath he took there, better than any place he had ever lived. She was splendid and he never felt like swimming away from her arms ever.”
Source: The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
“We want to like old things. We want to like things of great beauty. When we imagine ourselves as the kind of people who love beautiful, old things, we enjoy the fantasy.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“Very beautiful things become harder to like the more we give ourselves over to the spectacular, sexy, shocking, ultra-sensual, fashionable art and ethics of Modernity. So far as acquiring good taste is concerned, balance is a myth. Every blockbuster film a man watches makes the task of reading Paradise Lost and Jane Eyre seem more dull and more pointless.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“Mediocre art not only hinders our ability to understand other people, it demands that we interpret our own lives through a laughably narrow range of emotions largely defined and curated by the unmarried, agnostic, pro-choice twentysomethings who now rule our culture.”
Source: Will Heaven Be Boring?: A Conversation About Beauty and Good Taste