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Life Quotes

Lines about being alive, taken from novels, memoirs and short stories published in Pakistan. Not aphorisms written to be quoted — sentences that happened to a character on the way to somewhere else, and turned out to be true of everyone.

47 quotes
“Present- a profound moment experienced here and now but by reliving the past and by accepting that yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.”
— Sonia Mukhtar, Fall of Autumn
Hope Life
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“Sameer always felt that she was overfilled with her thoughts and wanted to pour her heart out but her dumbness placed a permanent obstacle in the way; “what a life of hindrance…” thought Sameer.”
— Abad Official, The Timeworn Silence
Wisdom Life
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“Even the walls looked bored and the courage inside me collapsed till the last word inside my mouth shattered and I choked.”
— aaina batool, A War Within
Life Courage
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“Strands of her dark hair fall across her forehead and she is so breathtaking I cannot believe someone like her is mine.”
— Arham Bhaiji, Holding Her Hand
Life Hope
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“Little do they know that he is only avoiding, the greatest reality of his life.”
— Hafiza Noor Ul Ain Imtiaz, Not Crazy
Life Truth
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“Years of accumulated ire at the hands of abuse and agony delivered by men in her life began to surface.”
— Zuhaib Shaikh, The Return
Life Society
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“Think about the people who never make you feel alienated, who filled your life with love.”
— Neeraj Brahmankar, An Abandoned leaf
Life Love
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“Being a social activist allows him to delve into the society and find the hidden stories that do not surface to the mainstream world.”
— Saif Khattak, A Fool's Paradise
Life Society
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“My life had become a series of motion pictures that played on my memory in the form of flashbacks.”
— Amna Sikandar Malik, An Autobiography of a Semicolon
Life
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“Who never stop dreaming and embrace challenges; life tosses towards them, like an old friend.”
— Zena Vatsa, Her Great Escapade
Life Hope
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“Not when his cursed ears still turn to the raw happiness in her voice like an insignificant sunflower growing and growing, trying with all his might to unite with his life source, his beloved; the sun.”
— Hafiza Noor Ul Ain Imtiaz, Not Crazy
Success Life
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“Barely conscious of the world around her, she stumbled to her room – her sanctuary from the physical world.”
— Saman Malik, Letters from Nowhere
Life
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“Khan, you are sentenced to life imprisonment for corruption, usury, bribery and dishonesty!”
— Hassan Mir, Unbroken Bonds
Life Truth
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“With a heavy heart, he sat on a carriage and ignited his expensive imported pipe as they left for home.”
— Zeeshan Ahmed Khan, Shroud Of Honor
Life Love
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“Moabir and Hilal, while living in those restricted roads in a buzzy settlement in Lahore city for a significant long time never went over each other.”
— Aaima Abid, An Eastern Fairytale
Life Society
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“When people are not able to let their voice out, they find speaking an arduous task, and it does take their life to a downside.”
— Neeraj Brahmankar, An Abandoned leaf
Life Society
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“Life as it was, was easy; a sister, two healthy and working parents, a belly full of food and the best of provisions.”
— Amna Sikandar Malik, An Autobiography of a Semicolon
Life
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“Facing our qualms strengthens our courage and increases our belief in ourselves that we can do what we think is difficult or impossible.”
— Omar Iftikhar, The Diligent Game
Courage Life
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“The look of longing and doubt I see in your eyes is the same I had when I was at a similar crossroads at my life.”
— Saman Malik, Letters from Nowhere
Life Love
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“On the other side of the town, one of his father’s attendants forwarded the call in a hurry “Khan Jee, villagers are waiting for you in the backyard of the fort”.”
— Zeeshan Ahmed Khan, Shroud Of Honor
Life Hope
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