Quotes from "Shantaram"
I recently read Shantaram, and absolutely loved the book. I am not going to go about reviewing the book for you as i dont think i am very good at it. Instead you can click on the title of this blog, and you will be redirected to amazon.com which a very articulate review by souls much better at expressing their thoughts.
I would like to share with you my favourite quotes from the book. I hope i am not infringing any copyrights by publishing the below mentioned quotes. I guess even if i am, i am only trying to say good, and hence help increase sales of the book, which i hope would redeem me from the the crime. (as is said in the book, "i'm doing the wrong thing for the right reason" ;)
Quotes from the Shantaram follow,
- News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.
- I was a revolutionary who lost his ideals in heroin, a philosopher who lost his integrity in crime, and a poet who lost his soul in a maximum security prison.
- So it begins, this story, like everything else, with a woman, and a city, and a little bit of luck.
- Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destinys walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those.
- A man in no hurry gets nowhere fast.
- The truth is a bully we all pretend to like
- What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.
- The starving, the dead, the slaves. And through it all, the purr and restle of prabaker’s voice. Thers a truth that’s deeper than experience. Its beyond what we see, or even what we feel. Its an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. Were helpless, usually in the face of it; and the cost of knowing it , like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any heart would be willing to pay. It doesn’t always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart, just aws prabaker told it to me, just as I’m telling it to you.
- But I couldn’t respond. My culture had taught me all the wrong things well. So I lay completely still, and gave no reaction at all. But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no color or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moments of truth and sorrow, the soul cant be stilled.
- I clenched my teeth against the stars. I closed my eyes. I surrendered to sleep. One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately in that love is the only cure for loneliness and shame and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.
- If your fate doesn’t make you laugh, then you just don’t get the joke.
- What I dint tell karla was that the girlfriend had described me as, interested in everything and committed to nothing. It still rustled, it still hurt and it was still true.
- People always hurt you with their trust. The surest way to hurt someone is to put all your trust in them.
- I don’t know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.
- You are not a man until you give your love truly and freely to a child, and you are not a good man until you earn the love truly and freely from a child.
- Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a true love that wasn’t meant to be.
- The most precious gift you can give your lover is your suffering. So I took each sadness confessed to me and pinned it to the sky.
- Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key, we twist the knife of fate, every time we cage a man, we close him in with hate.
- Every virtuous act has a dark secret in its heart
- It isn’t a secret, unless keeping it hurts
- If you make ur heart a wepon, you always end up using it on yourself.
- Depression only happens to people who don’t know how to be sad.
- We all attempt suicide three times in our lives, sooner or later we succeed.
- May he/she have ten daughters and may all of them marry well.
- Fate always give you two choices, the one you should take and the one you do.
- Heros always come in three kinds, dead, damaged or dubious.
- Its always a foolish mistake to be alone with someone you shouldn’t have loved.
- There is a war everywhere, all you can do is choose a side and fight.
Do read the book, it ROCKS!
Cheers,
Oscar.
I would like to share with you my favourite quotes from the book. I hope i am not infringing any copyrights by publishing the below mentioned quotes. I guess even if i am, i am only trying to say good, and hence help increase sales of the book, which i hope would redeem me from the the crime. (as is said in the book, "i'm doing the wrong thing for the right reason" ;)
Quotes from the Shantaram follow,
- News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.
- I was a revolutionary who lost his ideals in heroin, a philosopher who lost his integrity in crime, and a poet who lost his soul in a maximum security prison.
- So it begins, this story, like everything else, with a woman, and a city, and a little bit of luck.
- Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destinys walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those.
- A man in no hurry gets nowhere fast.
- The truth is a bully we all pretend to like
- What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.
- The starving, the dead, the slaves. And through it all, the purr and restle of prabaker’s voice. Thers a truth that’s deeper than experience. Its beyond what we see, or even what we feel. Its an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. Were helpless, usually in the face of it; and the cost of knowing it , like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any heart would be willing to pay. It doesn’t always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart, just aws prabaker told it to me, just as I’m telling it to you.
- But I couldn’t respond. My culture had taught me all the wrong things well. So I lay completely still, and gave no reaction at all. But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no color or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moments of truth and sorrow, the soul cant be stilled.
- I clenched my teeth against the stars. I closed my eyes. I surrendered to sleep. One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately in that love is the only cure for loneliness and shame and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.
- If your fate doesn’t make you laugh, then you just don’t get the joke.
- What I dint tell karla was that the girlfriend had described me as, interested in everything and committed to nothing. It still rustled, it still hurt and it was still true.
- People always hurt you with their trust. The surest way to hurt someone is to put all your trust in them.
- I don’t know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.
- You are not a man until you give your love truly and freely to a child, and you are not a good man until you earn the love truly and freely from a child.
- Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a true love that wasn’t meant to be.
- The most precious gift you can give your lover is your suffering. So I took each sadness confessed to me and pinned it to the sky.
- Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key, we twist the knife of fate, every time we cage a man, we close him in with hate.
- Every virtuous act has a dark secret in its heart
- It isn’t a secret, unless keeping it hurts
- If you make ur heart a wepon, you always end up using it on yourself.
- Depression only happens to people who don’t know how to be sad.
- We all attempt suicide three times in our lives, sooner or later we succeed.
- May he/she have ten daughters and may all of them marry well.
- Fate always give you two choices, the one you should take and the one you do.
- Heros always come in three kinds, dead, damaged or dubious.
- Its always a foolish mistake to be alone with someone you shouldn’t have loved.
- There is a war everywhere, all you can do is choose a side and fight.
Do read the book, it ROCKS!
Cheers,
Oscar.
posted by Oscar at Saturday, December 31, 2005
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