Blanks & Blues Quotes

“Loving someone is like getting addicted to alcohol; you don’t start consuming it because you want to, but because you need to. Once you begin, it’s tough to stop, and by the time you stop, you aren’t the same as before.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“Was the world sluggishly vanishing, or was I fading away?”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“A couple hundred languages, infinite letters, yet, some emotions are left unsaid.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“Your body is an identity that could identify you in the world, but the soul circumscribes the galaxy, that puts you apart from the world.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“It’s terrible how soon routine turns into memories.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“Our education system is like a money plant, which looks beautiful with big green leaves, but fails to produce any fruit or a flower. Undoubtedly, we are a home to the best doctors, scientists, poets, artists, and whatnot. But I feel, we miserably fail to evoke humanism, compassion, and tolerance in students. If we would count all the do’s and don’ts taught to us in our school, surely don’ts would exceed the number of the do's. I was forced to mug up certain things I was not interested in. Now, I understand the importance of questioning. I wish if our schools could teach us the art of questioning instead of just hunting for answers. Various facts are stuffed in delicate minds, but what about teachings on life, tutoring to never give up, and asking for students’ opinions on a subject? Yes, teaching these things would not directly increase the ‘GDP’ by creating human-machines, but would definitely create better minds and wonderful souls. I really wish our syllabus could preach to us the sheer value of knowledge, wisdom, and awareness. I wish our schools could nurture educated intellectuals, rather than literate persons. I wish we could pay more heed to the education ratio instead of just literacy ratio. We need more thinkers and fewer money makers. We are directed towards a goal already chosen for us, but not asked about our big fantasies and little dreams.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“Universe only listens to a stubborn heart, adamant mind, and a believing soul. Fight for the fairy tale you want to live, believe me, it does exist. You’re so enough that you don’t need anyone to help you pick up your broken pieces. You’re the sum total of the times you pick yourself up and move on.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“You can’t buy my heart with those favors. I ain’t a certificate of appreciation you can get.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“The most exquisite possession that ever comes to an individual in this world is having someone's faith in you.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“touching people’s hearts through your words is the only job that you could do and nobody has to hire you for it.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“Those bitter memories felt like a wrongly inked tattoo; it sticks to me adamantly even when I want to get rid of it.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“stories are not a privilege
stories are freedom
is there any deeper grief than
unheard, unsaid stories?”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“Why appeal to a shooting star that is not immortal
The Determination is not the shooting star that fades after a while.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“Sometimes, abandon the moving crowd and try to be a care-free sage.
Rather than a roaring, or a drizzling black cloud, try to become a rainbow adding all hues to the end of the sky.
Sometimes, rescue the soul from the captivity of your body, your soul also owns some desires, listen to the anxious heart and free the soul.
Don’t aim to be the loftiest mountain talking to clouds, sometimes attempt to become a valley befriending every passer-by.
Sometimes, cease the war ongoing between the four walls of the self, and surrender the swords and endeavour to live yourself.
Sometimes, withdraw the yearning to compete with the sun, why not just be the tiny ray peeping out from the vent.
Sometimes, resurrection would happen; this life, this dilemma, every bit is perishable. Before it befalls, try to offer the entire life’s namaaz in a single prostration.
Sometimes, hang the restrictions on a nail, free the wings burdened under it, take its support and fly in the sky of dreams.
Sometimes, instead of hiding the words behind the veil of ink, or hiding it on the paper, try to unveil it with your tongue.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“Slanting sun rays entering through the window panes like an uninvited guest, chit chat of the neighbourhood aunties complaining about their maids, traffic scratching out its way with noisy horns, vegetable vendors, loud uncles, ironworkers and many other unrecognizable sounds; enough reasons to wake me up amidst the Chandni Chowk’s volant lifestyle.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“Your body might be living, but your soul is enduring. Understand.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“Your body desires lust, but soul aspires for love and affection. Your body wants more, but the soul is screaming for a pause. Listen.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“Our body hunts for the roof, the soul just needs a home.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“Your body searches for heat, the soul explores the warmth.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“Good or bad’, ‘right or wrong’, ‘this side or that side’. No, don’t do this. Don’t put a tag on anything, never categorize it. Just take it, absorb it the way it is. Let everything and everyone exist in the rawest way possible. Look around you. Everything is beautiful and complete in its own mysterious sense.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“A place that is extremely urban, wholly metropolitan, with a lot of huge buildings built in symmetrical grids smudged with the filthy smog, lights stubbornly flickering through the windows even after midnight.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“More red lights on top of the cars than on roads. Glamorous lifestyle coexisting with some underprivileged lives. Big showrooms on the left, begging kids on the right. Azaan from the mosque blending smoothly with the pleasant sound of temple bells. The modern travel miracle Delhi Metro passes by the ancient temples and monuments. Crowded streets coexist with lonely hearts. This city is like the most beautiful girl in a college. That is what I know about Delhi, the capital city of the nation.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“Leaving that rotten place was not possible and staying would slowly unfold the nightmares.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“These stories, these words
Aren’t just the scribbling of a pen
This is a reality, witness of my being,
Of my experience on the face of earth.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues