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Top 90 Mahmoud Darwish Quotes (2024 Update)

Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “Without hope we are lost.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “Are we what we do with time, or are we what time does with us?”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they’re evaporating.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “On this earth there is that which deserves life.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “Maybe the moon is beautiful only because it is far.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “Palestinian people are in love with life.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “On the train we swapped seats, you wanted the window and I wanted to look at you.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “You won’t find the same person twice, not even in the same person.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “A University degree, four books, and hundreds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. You wrote me ‘good morning’ and I read it as ‘I love you’.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “Coffee should not be drunk in a hurry. It is the sister of time, and should be sipped slowly, slowly. Coffee is the sound of taste, a sound for the aroma. It is a meditation and a plunge into memories and the soul.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that’s all there’s to it.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “I don’t decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “If you asked me how many times you came in my mind, I would say once. Because you came, and never left.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don’t hate Jews.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “Out of my ignorance, I called you a homeland and I forgot homelands are taken away.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “I wish I were a candle in the darkness.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “They asked ‘do you love her to death?’ I said ’speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “My love, I fear the silence of your hands.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “Do not be absent for too long, then come and ask about how I am, details die with time and stories change.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “I am here. Anything more than that is rumor and slander.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “The wars will end and the leaders will shake hands, and that old woman will remain waiting for her martyred son, and that girl will wait for her beloved husband, and the children will wait for their heroic father, I do not know who sold the homeland but I know who paid the price.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “I melt at your glances and become music.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “We have on this earth what makes life worth living: April’s hesitation, the aroma of bread at dawn, a woman’s point of view about men, the works of Aeschylus, the beginning of love, grass on a stone, mothers living on a flute’s sigh and the invaders’ fear of memories.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “I love talking to you, even if I have nothing to say.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “I am patient and am waiting for a profound revolution in the consciousness of the Israelis. The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms – all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “May poetry and God’s name have mercy on us!”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “All roads lead to you, even those I took to forget you.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “No night is long enough for us to dream twice.”
Mahmoud Darwish Quote: “Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.”
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