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Yesterday I Was the Moon QUOTES

Yesterday I Was the Moon QUOTES

1 " the kind people
are running this world
they don't know how
their one little smile
has saved many lives "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

2 " in pieces
yet at peace
i am a building
in a post war city "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

3 " You'll have to learn
the art of
losing, choosing, and refusing
to win what we call
the game of life. "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

4 " Dreams live as long as the dreamers do "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

5 " yesterday — i was the moon
today — just an eclipse
something in me travels; some days it’s to the dark
some days it’s to the light "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

6 " i want stars, strength, and balance in my soul
it's been a while since they were last together in me "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

7 " like the anger of fire
shapes metal
like the sorrow of a writer
creates poetry
everything that is beautiful
doesn't always start beautifully "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

8 " i share a legacy
with the sky
we both know how to carry
some unanswered prayers
and some unshed tears
{the sky & i} "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

9 " isn't it
breathtakingly beautiful
how you've learned
to grow flowers
from the memories
that died
a long time ago "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

10 " nothing teaches better than this trio
the fears, the tears, the years "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

11 " i carry
the stories
the sadness
the victories
of people before me
i'm both a monument
and a future skyscraper
rising from the same skeleton "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

12 " people leave
because
unlike matter
that has firm, solid, strong
molecules
people are made up of
air, fire, earth and water
that change shapes
that keep moving
that cannot stop
and let them be
the things they want
the shapes they like
because
in the end
you too will grow
into something
entirely new
so let them go "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

13 " Everything that is beautiful doesn't always start beautifully. "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

14 " Dreams live as long as the dreamers do. "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

15 " you remind me of my favorite metropolis
sparkling, loud yet hauntingly sad when
the light goes out "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

16 " the most beautiful thing in this world isn’t made up of particles. it’s the strength of a person who has seen the collapse of their world, everything they held dear crashing down in a million pieces. yet every morning, they wake up and build their life, all over again. mourning their loss in a tranquil silence. i haven’t yet seen anything more astonishingly beautiful. "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

17 " you’re the moon
and the world is
a lonely wolf; it cries
at the sight of you
for you are glorious
and so out of reach "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

18 " do not worry
about people
they're wearing the same flesh
breathing the same chemicals
walking on the same solid earth as you

so why should it matter
when you are them and they are you "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

19 " I am fighting my losses, my trauma, and everything bringing ache because I don't want to look in the mirror and see a tragedy staring back. "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon

20 " Be kind for this is something a lot of people can never be. "

― Noor Unnahar , Yesterday I Was the Moon