Qurratulain Hyder Quotes

Shakib Bhai to me is the most handsome Bengali hero after Uttam Kumar. Once I told Shakib Bhai in a hospital that his natural look is his best look. You can fight Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and Uttam Kumar with this look.

In Bengal,
To move at all
Is seldom if ever done.

[Bai Juyi] utilized Confucianism to order his conduct, utilized Buddhism to cleanse his mind, and then utilized history, paintings, mountains, rivers, wine, music and song to soothe his spirit.

If we open the door [to the Bengali Hindu refugees], we all will sink.

India chose her places of pilgrimages on the top of hills and mountains, by the side of the holy rivers, in the heart of forests and by the shores of the ocean, which along with the sky, is our nearest visible symbol of the vast, the boundless, the infinite and the sublime.

I feel lonely as I gaze at the moon. I feel lonely as I think about myself, and I feel lonely as I ponder upon this wretched life of mine. I want to cry out that I am lonely, but no one asks me how I feel.

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.

People shed so many tears in all directions
that five other rivers have appeared in Multan.
I wanted to speak of the fire in my heart
but a hundred fiery tongues flared up in my mouth.

What could she possibly need? An alibi? A beard? A human canoe. She could sit on your back and paddle you up the Thames.