Ishfaq Rahman

“Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales

“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“The atoms in it must be used over and over again; thus the death of one thing becomes necessary for the birth of another.”
― Titus Lucretius Carus, On the Nature of Things

“It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!”
― William Carlos Williams