एक झूठा नज़रिया भी न होने से बेहतर था।

A false vision was better than none.

A false vision was better than none.

आह, ज़िंदगी, ज़िंदगी, यह कितनी पागलपन से, कितनी क्रूरता से तुम्हारी नब्ज़ों में दौड़ती थी!

Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

एक इंसान भगवान के नियमों को तोड़ सकता है और माफ किया जा सकता है। वे हमें यही सिखाते हैं। लेकिन जब वह प्रकृति के नियमों को तोड़ता है, तो कोई माफी नहीं मिलती - और कोई बचा नहीं सकता। देर-सवेर उसे इसकी कीमत चुकानी पड़ती है, या उसके बच्चों को चुकानी पड़ती है - या उसके बच्चों के बच्चों को। इससे कोई खास फर्क नहीं पड़ता। कीमत चुकानी ही पड़ती है।

a man can break God's laws and be forgiven. That's what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature's laws, there's no forgiveness - and there's no escape. Sooner or later he pays the penalty, or his children pay it - or his children's children. It doesn't matter much. It must be paid.

a man can break God's laws and be forgiven. That's what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature's laws, there's no forgiveness - and there's no escape. Sooner or later he pays the penalty, or his children pay it - or his children's children. It doesn't matter much. It must be paid.

एक बीमारी... सीमाओं को परिभाषित करती है, चीजों के आकार को स्पष्ट करती है।

A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.

A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.

लेकिन इंसान को हमेशा चीज़ों की शुरुआत में वापस जाना पड़ता है। जीवन के धागे को टटोलना - गांठ ढूंढना - उसे सुलझाना।

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

सुबह होते-होते रेशम के धागों जैसी महीन बारिश झील पर छाने लगती है।

By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

हे भगवान, कितने दयनीय जीव इस धरती के उत्तराधिकारी बने हैं, जो थोड़ी देर अपनी निगाहें सितारों पर टिका कर चलते हैं और बहुत जल्द अपनी नज़रें उस ज़मीन पर फेर लेते हैं जिस पर उनके कदम टिके थे!

God, what pathetic creatures had inherited the earth, to walk a little while with their eyes upon the stars and turn their gaze too soon upon the ground that held their feet!

God, what pathetic creatures had inherited the earth, to walk a little while with their eyes upon the stars and turn their gaze too soon upon the ground that held their feet!

बूढ़े होना महज़ उस परम स्वतंत्रता के करीब पहुँचने की प्रक्रिया थी जिसे मौत कहते हैं।

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

بلوط کی شاخ پر ادھر ادھر پتوں کا ایک جھرمٹ اب بھی جما ہوا تھا، جو پیتل کے ٹکڑوں کی طرح سخت لگ رہا تھا۔

Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

مجھے نہیں لگتا کہ اس سے کوئی فرق پڑتا ہے کہ آپ کی نیت کتنی ہی اچھی ہو، اگر آپ کے کام سے نقصان پہنچ رہا ہو۔

I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin'.

I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin'.

مس ٹنگلی نے قدرے مذاق اور برتری کے لہजे میں کہا، جس سے وہ خود کو ان لوگوں سے بڑی خوبصورتی اور شائستگی سے الگ سمجھتے تھے: ’’یہ بات واقعی حیرت انگیز ہے کہ یہ لوگ کبھی کبھار اپنی روزمرہ کی یکساں زندگی میں کسی المیے یا اس جیسے کسی واقعے کے لیے کیسے جگہ بنا لیتے ہیں۔‘‘

It's remarkable - most remarkable, the way these people manage, from time to time, a tragedy or a near-tragedy to break the even tenor of their ways,' said Mr. Tingley, in a tone of half-humorous superiority, by which he considered that he distinguished himself, subtly and inoffensively, from 'these people.

It's remarkable - most remarkable, the way these people manage, from time to time, a tragedy or a near-tragedy to break the even tenor of their ways,' said Mr. Tingley, in a tone of half-humorous superiority, by which he considered that he distinguished himself, subtly and inoffensively, from 'these people.

یہ خدا کی ایک چالاکی تھی کہ اس نے انسان کو کرنے کے لیے کام دیا—اس نے انسان کو ایسے سوالات پوچھنے سے روکے رکھا جن کے جواب خدا کے پاس بھی نہیں تھے۔

it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

سنو—انسان قدرت کا بچہ ہے۔ جب وہ اپنی ہی ماں کے خلاف ہو جاتا ہے—تو اس کا کام تمام ہو جاتا ہے! ہو سکتا ہے اسے اس کا فوراََ پتہ نہ چلے، لیکن بالآخر اسے احساس ہو جائے گا۔

Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.

Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.

ایک بار جب انسان اپنے ہاتھ مٹی میں ڈال دیتا ہے اور دانتوں میں اس کی کسک محسوس کر لیتا ہے، تو اس کے اندر ایک ایسا احساس بیدار ہوتا ہے جو اس کے اپنے دور یا نسل کا نہیں ہوتا، بلکہ پیدائش اور موت کے اس پار سے چلا آ رہا ہوتا ہے جسے یاد رکھنا بھی ناممکن ہے۔

once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something rise within him that was not of his day or generation, but had persisted through birth and death from a time beyond recall.

once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something rise within him that was not of his day or generation, but had persisted through birth and death from a time beyond recall.

مذہب پرجوش، لاپروا، تباہ کن اور بت شکنی کا نام ہے۔ یہ وہ شہید ہے جو عقیدے کی خاطر جل جاتا ہے۔ یہ کانوں کا تاج اور سولی ہے۔

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

کھیتوں کی ہریالی سنہرے رنگ میں بدل گئی، جو ہوا کے جھونکوں پر مستی سے جھومتی رہی اور آخرکار کسانوں کے ہاتھوں کٹ کر گر گئی۔

The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.

The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.

ماضی... ایک دھندلا سا راستہ ہے جس پر چل کر ہم خوف، خوبصورتی اور جنون کے دو رھاگوں سے گزر سکتے ہیں۔

The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion.

The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion.

یہاں کرنے کو بہت کچھ ہے لیکن خود کو پانے کے لیے کچھ بھی نہیں! جب ہم حد سے زیادہ تگ و دو شروع کر دیتے ہیں، تو زندگی ناگوار گزرنے لگتی ہے۔

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

لوگوں کو وہ باتیں بتانے کا کوئی خاص فائدہ نہیں ہوتا جو وہ سننا ہی نہیں چاہتے۔

There's precious little comes of telling people what they don't want to hear.

There's precious little comes of telling people what they don't want to hear.

مرغزار میں سردی جتنا حقیقی اور یادگار کچھ بھی نہیں تھا۔

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

پھر سے برفباری۔ سفید، خوبصورتی کا سفید جال، خواب کا جال، جو زمین کو اور زندگی کے بے بس دل کو اپنے حصار میں لے رہا ہے۔

The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life.

The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life.

وقت، جو آہستہ اور تیز رفتار دونوں طرح سے تعمیر کرتا ہے؛ وقت، جو آہستہ اور تیز رفتار دونوں طرح سے تباہ کرتا ہے؛ وقت، جو اپنی بے پروا شفقت میں پوری زمین کو جکڑے ہوئے ہے۔

Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.

Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.

وقت خلا کے مقابلے میں بہت آہستہ گزرتا ہے۔

Time passed so much more slowly than space.

Time passed so much more slowly than space.

میرے دوست، تم نے اپنے ہل سے مٹی کو الٹ پلٹ دیا ہے۔ اب یہ پہلے جیسی کبھی نہیں رہے گی۔

You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again.

You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again.