Heer Ranjha Quotes

You ask Heer to be severed from Ranjha but what is a kite without its string? I will flutter and fall to the ground, a dead, useless thing.

Ranjha, have you ever stopped to think why a girl’s place in the world is so small, why a woman’s work is constantly belittled or why she is considered inferior to men, even though she is the one who gives birth to them and raises them? I’ll tell you why. Because if she leaves her father or husband’s house she might be physically harmed, she might be dragged into a field or an alley and raped, she might be sold to a brothel, she might be carried off by bandits or by enemy soldiers and kept as a sex slave. So she learns, like generations of women have done before her, to trade her freedom for security, her dignity for physical safety. She chooses to live with a hundred little insults to her spirit every day instead of the threat of that one big assault on her body. In the end it all boils down to not being helpless.’ ‘And carrying a sword makes you feel less helpless?’ ‘Not just feel less helpless. It makes me less helpless.

Eternal love. Mostly it was with reference with legendary love stories from books, like Leyla-Majnun, Shirin-Farhad, Heer-Ranjha, Romeo-Juliet and Yusuf-Zulaika, but never in real life.

Hir says, 'O mother, never can an addict give up opium. 'I cannot live without this Ranjha, inveterate habits know no cure. 'The tiger cannot live without flesh with a tearing blow he earns his fare. 'Like taint of mango-juice or steel the taint of love for ever remains. 'Heads may be felled, the love-disease does not admit of remedy. 'I will respect your every wish. but one wish I cannot obey. 'So is it willed by fate, indeed, none can undo what fate ordains. 'For I got my Ranjha from the court of heaven, God himself made me a gift of him.

At the first assault you may desert, the way of love is the hard, strait way. In truth I say, tell me the truth, for this is the final moment of test. 'Love is a hard task-master who will keep the whole world in unrest. 'And if you are false to your pledges here, you'll pay the score on judgement-day.