41 Urdu ash'ar / shaayari (shers, couplets) containing the word:
zindagi: life
1 / 41: zindagi
zindagi khwahish-e-nakaam
hi karte guzri
with no achievement in life did
my heart capture peace
my life was spent through a
series of unrequited desires
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2 / 41: zindagi
zindagi tu ne to dhoke pe
diya hai dhoka
of death, at least,
i don’t expect this
oh life, you have only
cheated me, again and again
Theme: Life, Learning, & Living (124)
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3 / 41: zindagi
zindagi kaahe ko hai
khwaab hai deewaane ka
it is a puzzle, neither to
understand or to explain
what's the point of life?
it is but a madman's dream
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4 / 41: zindagi
bahut hote hain, yaaro,
chaar din bhi
it is true that life is
just four days long
even these four days, friends,
are too many
Theme: Life, Learning, & Living (124)
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5 / 41: zindagi
yeh zameen chaand se behtar
nazar aati hai hamen
when life brings me to
your gathering
this earth looks to me
more beautiful than the moon
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6 / 41: zindagi
na jaane kis gali mein
zindagi ki shaam ho jaaye
let our bright memories
continue to stay with us
as who knows where
life’s evening might fall
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7 / 41: zindagi
duuriyaan majbuuriyaan
tanhaaiyaan
life perhaps
is just this
distances, compulsions
loneliness
Theme: Life, Learning, & Living (124)
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8 / 41: zindagi
main hoon dard-e-ishq se jaan-ba-lab
mujhe zindagi ki dua na de
oh my companion, my soulmate
deceive me not posing as a friend
i am already dying from the pain of love
don't curse me more with prayer for life
1961: Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist
1962: Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist
1963: Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist
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9 / 41: zindagi
shaam to subha mein
badalte raho
this is only demand
of life
keep turning every evening
into a dawn
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10 / 41: zindagi
vo teri yaad mein ho
ya tujhe bhulaane mein
the days of my life
were thus spent, my dear
either in remembering you
or in an effort to forget
Theme: Heart, Mind, & Memory (64)
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11 / 41: zindagi
abhi to log taraste hain
zindagi ke liye
where this love and passion
where this separation and union
right now, people just
long for life
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12 / 41: zindagi
chaman mein aayegi fasl-e-baharaan
hum naheen honge
flame of life will shine bright
but i won't be there
season of blossoms will come to the garden
but i won't be there
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13 / 41: zindagi
bahut azeez sahi
eitbaar kuch bhi naheen
life has always
remained close to me-
precious, for sure
but never reliable
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14 / 41: zindagi
tujh se bichhaD ke
zindagi duniya se ja mili
i was doubly punished
for my abject defeat
after separating from you
i had to go live with the world
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15 / 41: zindagi
qaafila saath
aur safar tanha
life transpired
spent alone
moving with the caravan
but traveling alone
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16 / 41: zindagi
kyun dekhen zindagi ko
kisi ki nazar se hum
all we have
is a viewpoint
why should we see life
from anyone else’s perspective
Theme: Hopes, Aspirations, & Dreams (37)
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17 / 41: zindagi
zindagi kya hai
kitabon ko haTa kar dekho
get out into the sun
take a bath in the clouds
figure out life
by first closing the book
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18 / 41: zindagi
mujh ko aadat hai
muskuraane ki
oh sorrow of life
don’t be angry
it is my habit
to smile
Theme: Miscellany (44)
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19 / 41: zindagi
zindagi ki fursat-e-baaqi
se koi kaam le
don’t anguish about
the failures of the dead past
make something useful
of the time that’s left
past
dead
failures, defeats
mention, remember
life
leisure, freedom
remainder, left
work
Theme: Life, Learning, & Living (124)
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20 / 41: zindagi
ye kisi tarah paDha jaye
na samjha jaye
life is like a little-read letter
of a foreigner, 'ibrat',
however you read it,
you can't make sense of it
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21 / 41: zindagi
ik sukoon-e-dil ke khaatir
umr bhar taDapaa kiye
in short
this is the story of my life
just for some peace and calm
i kept yearning all my life
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22 / 41: zindagi
itni khoobsurat
ye zindagi naheen hoti
if there is no
light of love in the heart
life does not turn out
to be so beautiful
Theme: Life, Learning, & Living (124)
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23 / 41: zindagi
tamaam umr kisi
doosre ke ghar mein raha
in this way
life has passed
all the years
i lived in someone else’s home
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24 / 41: zindagi
woh zindagi hai jo
kaanTon ke darmiyaan guzre
the company of flowers
is indeed beautiful
but that is life which
happens amid thorns
1959: Sahitya Akademi
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25 / 41: zindagi
humne kaunsi sadiyan
guzarni hai yahan
why is life teaching me
so many lessons?
how many ages am I
going to spend here?
Theme: Life, Learning, & Living (124)
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26 / 41: zindagi
kuch na hoga to
tajurba hoga
why be constantly fearful
as to what will happen in life
if nothing happens, at the least
we will gain some experience
Theme: Life, Learning, & Living (124)
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27 / 41: zindagi
kahin zindagi ko
qaraar aa na jaaye
i seek to harness my heart's pain
for many tasks
i hope my life won't
slip into comfort
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28 / 41: zindagi
ruuth kar waqt ganvaane ki
zaroorat kya hai
life is so short
even for love
why waste any
being upset
Anonymous
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29 / 41: zindagi
ruuTh kar vaqt ganvaane ki
zaroorat kya hai
as it is, life is
too short for loving
why get upset and
waste it all away
Anonymous
Theme: Life, Learning, & Living (124)
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30 / 41: zindagi
milta faqat hai
zauq-e-tajassus ke baab mein
don’t you forget, shahed,
that the pleasures of life
are found only at the doorstep
of the joy of curiosity
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31 / 41: zindagi
zindagi naam hai
mar mar ke jiye jaane ka
every breath, fani, is
the corpse of a moment gone
what we call life
is living through repeated deaths
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32 / 41: zindagi
kamaayi le chala hoon
saath apne zindagi bhar ki
so many scars in my heart,
countless unmet desires
these gains i carry with me
through my whole life
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33 / 41: zindagi
use zindagi kyoon
na bhaari lage
one who is struck
by love's sharp arrow
how could life
not feel heavy to them?
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34 / 41: zindagi
ke naadaani hai
behtar aagahi se
i have learnt
this much from life
that ignorance is
better than awareness
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35 / 41: zindagi
magar, hum ginti usi ki karte hai
jo haasil na ho saka
we go get a lot
in our life
but, we keep count only
of what we couldn’t
Anonymous
Theme: Life, Learning, & Living (124)
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36 / 41: zindagi
ab bahaar aaye to kya
abr-e-bahaar aaya to kya
the scorching heat of life has
withered and wilted my youth
what use now if the spring arrives
or the clouds of spring begin to rain
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37 / 41: zindagi
ishq ki jaye phir samajhiye
zindagi kya cheez hai
how can sane people know
what ecstasy is all about
love and figure out
what life is all about
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38 / 41: zindagi
ye khaaki apni fitrat mein
na noori hai na naari hai
action shapes life
both heaven and hell
this earthly being, in its nature,
is neither of light nor of fire
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39 / 41: zindagi
milti hai zindagi mein
ye raahat kabhi kabhi
oh heart, who is ever granted
this grace of restlessness?
life bestows such ease
only now and then
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40 / 41: zindagi
nazar na aayega jab
koi bismil-o-qaatil
it is very near, muztar,
that system and order of life
when you will not see
any murderers or victims
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41 / 41: zindagi
agar aasaniyaan hon
zindagi dushwar ho jaaye
i go along laughing and playing
with waves of adversity
if life were to be all easy
how painful it would be
Theme: Life, Learning, & Living (124)
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