Fursat-e-aram-e-ghash Hasti Hai Bohran-e-adam — Mirza Ghalib
Meaning
Existence is merely the brief respite of a fainting spell during the crisis of non-being, and the fading color of possibility is for me nothing more than restless tossing and turning.
Explanation
Ghalib imagines life as nothing more than a momentary faint—a brief, fragile respite in the agonizing crisis of non-existence. He portrays the self as a restless patient tossing and turning in bed, watching the vivid colors of every possibility drain away into nothingness. It is a deeply haunting thought: our entire struggle of living is just an uneasy twitch within the vast, eternal stillness of the void.
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