Top 40 Soroosh Shahrivar Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The day you are born is the day you start dying.”

— Soroosh Shahrivar

2. “You always find time for things that feed your soul.”

— Soroosh Shahrivar

3. “Take a child away from a mother and she will bring the world to its knees for justice to be served.”

— Soroosh Shahrivar

4. “When a man loves a woman, the child in him comes out. And when a woman loves a man, her maternal instinct comes out.”

— Soroosh Shahrivar

5. “Piercing green eyes, luscious lips, a soothing voice and a mind more infinite than the universe.”

— Soroosh Shahrivar

6. “For it is when calm clouds gather that thunder is made.”

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7. “Dubai, with all of its glitz and glamour rose in the heart of the desert.”

— Soroosh Shahrivar

8. “The pen, a feather plucked out of an angel’s wings.”

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9. “He was Lenin in a Lamborghini. He was Gandhi with a gun.”

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10. “The only response to stupidity and ignorance was silence.”

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11. “And envy, envious of a time when the poet, the mystic, the scientist and the statesman were nobler than the merchant.”

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12. “Interpreting dreams for Iranians was just as much a sacrament as reading coffee cups was for Turks.”

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13. “The only wealth that mattered was affinity and generosity. Affinity towards oneself and generosity towards the world itself.”

— Soroosh Shahrivar

14. “There are no such things as accidents. Only fate redesigned.”

— Soroosh Shahrivar

15. “He had never met a girl who shot an arrow straighter than Cupid did.”

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16. “You are most beautiful in your purest form. You are a manifestation of God himself. Open your eyes and let the light flow right through to your core. All it takes is for you to notice a flicker of leaves, a momentary glance from a loved one, or for a wave to hit your toes and freeze you in that timeless place where you know with every cell in your body that God, indeed is real.”

— Soroosh Shahrivar

17. “A beautiful woman is a jewel, a good woman, a treasure. You were my greatest treasure, my beautiful daughter.”

— Soroosh Shahrivar

18. “He was everyone and every living creature in one ecstatic motion.”

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19. “A man can have many wives. But he can have only one mother.”

— Soroosh Shahrivar

20. “Hope had only revealed herself to him when he was immersed in darkness.”

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21. “Time melting like a Dali painting.”

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22. “His transcendent sense of worth had risen and caught up to him. He did not like the world he lived in, and the people in it. He was just as much a victim as he was a culprit of the seven deadly sins.”

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23. “Even angels sin. Just look at Satan.”

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24. “Now I know why I have struggled with my drinking all these years ’cause I see your face every time I pick a glass.”

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25. “Not long ago, man grew a sense of conscience. He defined himself by what he is, what he thinks, and, more importantly, what he feels – failing to realize that all come from One single source. All of man’s qualities come from One divine being. And that One being has bestowed nature’s hand with the ability to balance itself. Where there is good, there is also evil. And where evil arises, so does good.”

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26. “In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness.”

— Soroosh Shahrivar

27. “Everything for you stems from a physical need. Most of you think with either your belly or what’s below it.”

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28. “The greatest gift I ever received. And the greatest gift I ever gave to this world was you. I love you my daughter.”

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29. “Humor hides pain. The only thing both of them could do was laugh.”

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30. “My beautiful daughter, you did what the mystics have been preaching for thousands of years. You dived head-first into love. It doesn’t matter what his intentions were. Yours were pure because you are the embodiment of love.”

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31. “The verve of the youth, their simplicity, their use of short sentences. Straight to the point and free of the Gordian nature that comes with age.”

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32. “Heartbreak is a familiar place. Heartbreak is a comfortable place. Heartbreak is where I’m at my best.”

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33. “I neglected you because I was mad at myself. I was mad that I couldn’t build the life I envisioned for you when you were born. And I took out that anger on you.”

— Soroosh Shahrivar

34. “That word, confidence, was like butter on a hot stove for Darien, what he considered the most attractive quality in a woman.”

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35. “The yachts’ berth was next to the Yas Marina Circuit, where Formula 1 would come into town once a year. At night, when the lights on its orbicular architecture switched on, the circuit would radiate like a constellation of stars.”

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36. “The sun loses more than a million tons of material from its surface every second. She felt like the sun. Radiating with rage, despair, regret and a million other tons of mixed feelings. Each shedding only for other feelings to reappear.”

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37. “But what good is a crown when your head can’t hold it? What good is a throne when it is a wheelchair? And what good is a king with no kingdom?”

— Soroosh Shahrivar

38. “Only powerful currencies earn the right to have a symbol. Just imagine, one US dollar was worth 64 rials in 1939, right after World War II. And what is it worth today? Around 150,000 rials.”

— Soroosh Shahrivar

39. “We tangoed every night, while I was blinded by the scent of you, I’m Frankie Slade, shoot my head, you held me back.”

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40. “She closed her eyes and prayed, prayed that he may still run after her and tell her to come back. He didn’t and she kept walking. She began to cry. She felt lost. She felt confused. How could a love so pure be so corrupt? How could heaven turn into hell in a blink of an eye. Never one to pray, she couldn’t help but look up at the night sky and ask God, is this it for me? Is it my curse to always have this emptiness in my soul?”

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41. “I don’t get how an angel like you is friends with a demon like her.”

— Soroosh Shahrivar