141 Quotes by Mahmoud Darwish

The only paradise we know through our senses and intuition is that of the beloved, and the only hell, disappointment in love.

My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller.

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

I used to invent love when necessary. When I walked alone on the riverbank. Or whenever the level of salt would rise in my body, I would invent the river.

Palestinian people are in love with life.

The long road has drained me of all feelings and expectations. I don’t feel a thing or expect anything now.

Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they’re evaporating.

Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.

I never wanted children; maybe I’m afraid of responsibility.