Famous Warsan Shire Quotes

  • His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay. – Warsan Shire

    His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay.– Warsan Shire

  • all those nights with the phone warming the side of my face like the sun. – Warsan Shire

    all those nights with the phone warming the side of my face like the sun.– Warsan Shire

  • The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do. – Warsan Shire

    The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.– Warsan Shire

  • The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, for even then, we have the moon. – Warsan Shire

    The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, for even then, we have the moon.– Warsan Shire

  • Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself – what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat. – Warsan Shire

    Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself – what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.– Warsan Shire

  • Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself – what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.– Warsan Shire

  • It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me. – Warsan Shire

    It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.– Warsan Shire

  • I want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running. – Warsan Shire

    I want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.– Warsan Shire