Vijay Fafat > Quotes

“A charlatan walked as a prophet,
and changed the world of sheep in his wake,
and all that while,
God watched
with blind eyes,
helpless…”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“He and his fate walk together,
Master and Slave.
In which order,
only time and action tell.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Right beneath this shimmering...
beneath this glittering surface of water
lies
a distorted view of the world above.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Never mourn the loss of a map.
There remains a world to discover.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“She douses the flames of desire in my eyes,
and asks why I leave the soiree so thirsty.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“The best defense against sarcasm
is to take it literally.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“We are slaves
to the dictates of free will.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Do not dispute your thirst of water…
…not with the flowing brook.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“In good measure and often,
we engage in an argument
over the ninth pawn of white...”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Something was said then, I recall,
to move the still spirit.

If only!
Oh, if only I'd heard!
The broken silence
amidst the meaningless mumblings of my mind.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“As the tide of life recedes,
and the crest of foam scatters to the wind,
all that's left on the sand
are dying bubbles of dreams and wishes...”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“We do not mourn the memories lost.
We mourn the ones which beset us as loyal friends.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Life needs
an essential bargain
of what were once
sacrosanct principles...”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Receiver:


Speech discriminates between listening ears
even if sound does not.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Pusillanimity:
.
Such small doors in such tall houses!
Do Men live here or Pygmies?”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Trust not the promises of haste.
They curl up as little lies...”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“One cannot become a pundit by proxy.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Asks, he does…
But Oh!
A question so small…”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“The pain of seven continents
weighs on his carefree soul
as God ponders his next move.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Let not fate tarry on you.
Seize it before it carries you.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“No completeness in the world,
but endless desires...”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Draw a gentle sea.
Draw an easy boat.
And row out yonder alone,
against the rising dawn,
to unknown bliss.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Dawn to dusk, lust to dust,
such is our lot;
we strive for completeness
of the Irrelevant Thought.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Ahh, such loss!
Such mortal desires
in the face of immortal offerings!”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Meandering words
lose their meaning along the way.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Are we not a game of Bluff played by life,
till we call in our deaths a show of hands?”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“The ink of victory
rewrites history.”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Sorrow's the name of the heartless Spring
which leaves the cold winter inside...”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“Is it not the case in our daily lives?
We pretend to see a hurricane
in a swirling mote's eye...”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses

“The Bugle's Lesson Of War And Peace

Listen carefully
to that resonant sound from history;
the embittered, shuffling march
of the troops of Pyrrhus”
― Vijay Fafat, The Ninth Pawn of White - A Book of Unwritten Verses