Unfinished Quotes

“When you left
you left behind a field
of silent flowers
under a sky
full of unstirred clouds...you left
a million butterflies
mid-silky flutters

You left like midnight rain
against my dreaming ears

Oh and how you left
leaving my coffee scentless
and my couch comfortless

leaving upon my fingers
the melting snow of you

you left behind
a calendar full of empty days
and seasons full of aimless wanders

leaving me alone
with an armful of sunsets

your reflection behind
in every puddle
your whispers
upon every curtain
your fragrance
inside every petal

you left your echoes in between
the silence of my eyes

Oh and how you left
leaving my sands footless
and my shores songless

leaving me with windows full of
moistened moonlight

nights and nights
of only a half-warmed soul

and when you left...
you left behind a lifetime
of moments untouched

the light of a million stars
unshed

and when you left
you somehow
left my poem...unfinished.



(Published in Taj Mahal Review Vol.11
Number 1 June 2012)”
― Sanober Khan

“No matter how hard we try to separate, and if eventually we finally separate, we are just fooling around thinking we had parted, yet our hearts dwells where we cowardly believed we had left.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“You are an unfinished work in progress. One of the good things about life's challenges: you get to find out that you're capable of being far more than you ever thought possible.”
― Karen Salmonsohn

“Unfinished, graceless creatures of earth and blood.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Your thoughts make me miss you. I feel pain. And I feel restless. As if a part of me is incomplete without you. Then I feel deeper pain. And then I become soulful! You will always be an unfinished part of me.”
― Avijeet Das

“But all remains unchanged.”
― Franz Kafka

“You will always be an unfinished part of me.”
― Avijeet Das

“I replayed the words that would forever haunt me. As would Adrian's unfinished sentence: 'So, for instance, if Tony . . .' I knew I couldn't change, or mend, anything now.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“We only can’t let go or move on from a love that we feel is unfinished.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Why the two [gigantic obelisks left unfinished at the Aswan quarry] were never finished is unknown. It appears that the workers simply stopped and never came back. The same possibly was the case at the Serapeum at Saqqara, where most of the 100 ton boxes were never finished. If these are pre-dynastic works as expected, then the great cataclysm of 12,000 years ago could have been the culprit - massive earthquakes and possibly solar blasts devastating all life in these and other areas. There is a massive horizontal crack in the bottom of the right channel of the great obelisk that also may have been the reason [...]. On another note, the left and right channels of the great obelisk would have been too narrow for workers to be shaping them with dolerite stone pounders. A lot of force would be required to remove any material at all, and having a foot or two of clearance would result in very little if any stone removal.”
― Brien Foerster, Aftershock: The Ancient Cataclysm That Erased Human History

“Colui che ha occhi per vedere e orecchi per sentire deve convincersi che nessun mortale sa mantenere un segreto: se le sue labbra sono serrate parlerà con la punta delle dita, il suo tradirsi trasuderà da ogni poro.”
― Sigmund Freud

“I could hear her saying: One day I will have a daughter and I will give her an unfinished story and it will be up to her to decide if it is a void or a gift.”
― Kyo Maclear, Unearthing

“I feel the darkness seeping into me slowly, as if seeing if it likes it's new snack. I can only assume that I''m delicious to the darkness, because it takes over me. But I split second before it does, I realize what this is: it's my kiss of darkness.”
― Violet Turner

“She's an unfinished fairytale that never got any closure on pages.”
― Nitya Prakash

“It is wise to master your self, but it is wiser to leave a few rogue thoughts, some few doubts, and some loose ends. It is into the wild and unfinished places that we can grow.”
― Chris Ernest Nelson

“New York was almost poetic in its frenzy—almost like a global India.”
― Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Unfinished

“And by this time the Chinese box was peeling crazily, and as each layer fell away a new voice told a new tale, none of the tales finished because the box inevitably found a new story inside each unfinished one, until it seemed that digression was the true principle of the universe, that the only real subject was the way the subject kept changing, and how could anyone live in a crazy situation in which nothing remained the same for five minutes and no narrative was ever driven through to its conclusion, there could be no meaning in such an environment, only absurdity, the unmeaningness that was the only sort of meaning anyone could hold on to.”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“You will always be the unsettled question ripping through my heart; the unfinished love that will forever remain behind the door that I can never close.”
― Stephanie Bennett-Henry

“Taking your life closes one chapter, but leaves countless stories unfinished.”
― Carlos Wallace, Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free