❝Since evening there's a dampness in my eyes,
today, once again, I feel your absence.❞
today, once again, I feel your absence.❞
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🔗शाम से आँख में नमी सी है, — Jaun Elia | Dard Shayari
About Jaun Elia
Jaun Elia was an Urdu poet, philosopher, biographer and scholar from Amroha, India, who later settled in Karachi, Pakistan. Known for his eccentric lifestyle and nihilistic worldview, his poetry is marked by existential angst, loss, and a dark romanticism.
Born: Amroha, India · Era: 1931–2002 · Specialty: Nihilist, Romantic Poetry
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Sad shayari captures what's hard to say out loud. Ghalib's restlessness, Faiz's longing, Jaun Elia's ache — this collection holds some of the finest verses on sorrow and loneliness. Reach for these when words feel heavy, when you want to sit with a feeling rather than fix it, or to let a friend know their pain is understood.
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❝I asked her to wait a while,
She glanced back, then walked away with a smile.❞
She glanced back, then walked away with a smile.❞
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🔗❝I am so very tired, O life,
You must be tired of me in this strife.❞
You must be tired of me in this strife.❞
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❝I have been lonely for so very long,
You too have been lonely for just as long.
Still we two never seem to meet and belong —
What kind of distance is this, what kind of world gone wrong?❞
You too have been lonely for just as long.
Still we two never seem to meet and belong —
What kind of distance is this, what kind of world gone wrong?❞
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🔗❝The world was listening with great keenness and care,
I myself fell asleep while telling my tale there.❞
I myself fell asleep while telling my tale there.❞
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🔗❝I have been extinguished, but I will remain bright,
I am the star of some dark and forgotten night.
The world cannot understand the pain that I bear —
I am a man who belongs to some other time and air.❞
I am the star of some dark and forgotten night.
The world cannot understand the pain that I bear —
I am a man who belongs to some other time and air.❞
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❝How lethal is the fragrance of your memory's trace,
Every time it arrives, it disturbs and leaves no grace.
It lets me neither come close nor go away free —
Your memory lives only in this in-between for me.❞
Every time it arrives, it disturbs and leaves no grace.
It lets me neither come close nor go away free —
Your memory lives only in this in-between for me.❞
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❝Thousands of longings, each so fierce it could take my breath away,
many of my wishes did come true, yet still they weren't enough.❞
many of my wishes did come true, yet still they weren't enough.❞
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🔗❝They too had pain, yet they left
I too have pain, but where can I go❞
I too have pain, but where can I go❞
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🔗❝They wrote in a letter
forget me
but I read that same letter every day❞
forget me
but I read that same letter every day❞
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❝Do not ask of me that same first love, my love,
I had once believed that with you, life itself would shine.❞
I had once believed that with you, life itself would shine.❞
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🔗❝So what if there are tears in my eyes
The feelings of the heart do not come to the tongue❞
The feelings of the heart do not come to the tongue❞
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🔗❝Whenever I look at the empty sky
I see your face there❞
I see your face there❞
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🔗❝I keep hiding the pain deep in my heart
Smiling on the outside, I am dying within❞
Smiling on the outside, I am dying within❞
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🔗❝Whatever I burned in the loneliness of night
In the morning I found their image in the ashes❞
In the morning I found their image in the ashes❞
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