Raj Doctor > Quotes

“―How can one person love someone so much? How can you love me
so much?‖”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“Without speaking a word, when the soul feels
connected to someone – what does one have to say? It
was similar to seeing the beauty of a glowing flower in
the morning sun, with whom one connects like a dew
drop.”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“Eternal Love?
Impossible! Most conclusions were drawn.
Compromise! Adjustments! Letting Go!
Those are the recipe of successful long-term relationship.
There was never „eternity‟ in love.”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“That was their true way of love. The moment a word came out of one‟s mouth, the other did not question it.
One word uttered; it was followed. Advice shared!”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“Chickens and goats come to Istanbul to be wringed,
slaughtered and butchered,” Zeheb had said once.”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“Do not lie on low ground, the torrent will take you
off; do not lie on high ground, the wind will take you away”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“Umit had never prayed in his life in the way as everyone
considers and thinks of praying. If looking within oneself is
praying, just like you do, he too did that a lot.”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“Umit thought he was a keen un-learner. He searched un-
learning on his own. Deliberately, he kept on erranting for
something he never knew. That has been his mind‟s constitution.”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“By keeping him directionless, his parents kept
him on track – in direction. That is what he
understood. Understands now!”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“I pass by these walls, the walls of Leyla,
And I kiss this wall and that wall…”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“The fruit of Silence is Prayer…”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“Sometimes Umit thought that the books read them. To
him it looked as if the books were holding his parents,
and reading them.”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“I walk on the street with the name of God
Sharing greetings to everyone
Oh his stately gentle folk
Blessed times are upon them.
Your drummer has come to the door
He gives greeting to everyone
Don't be upset his dears
He's come to collect his tip.
This month is called Sultan month
Sweet with cream and honey is eaten.
It's been a custom for all time
That a tip is given to the drummer.”
― Raj Doctor

“The fruit of Peace is Silence…”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“After many years of his melancholy he realized that love
as understood by most of the people in the world, is mostly love of
the intellect, of the mind. It associates them with certain image of
love which a person has seen, read or heard.”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“The fruit of Prayer is Faith”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“It is a nice feeling to be older than one‟s own mother,
but still believe that if your mother was alive, she would
still know the answers better than you would.”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“Destiny takes us from one place to another without our really being aware of it.”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“You stand more
confused, than understood. If you believe in their words to
understand them, you stand along with them in accepting some
assumptions and propagating a lie, which humans have been living
since thousands of years.”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“Smiling and being helpful is part of his being. At times
people did not like his offer of selfless love, and his care
towards unknown strangers. However, he never felt bad
about people not liking his help.
May be, he did not know how to feel bad. In
return, of insults, he smiled and showed compassion.”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“Let us put it this way, he wanted to avoid any form of use
of mind and intellect, and his identification in realizing that what
he was experiencing is true love. He did not want to be restrictive in
his sensibilities, perceptibility and awareness about what was
happening to him.”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“Those rare but wonderful memories remained with
him even today. Fresh as a blooming flower from a new bud; ever
erupting to refresh the world around him.”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“Hearing those ladies, he understood that within many
forms of relationships, there was something called love
which people thought was love, but no one knew
exactly whether it was love or not.”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“I know that without their being hindrance on my path, I
would not become happily melancholic in my death.”
― Raj Doctor

“Umit was thirteen then. He did not mind that worldly unlucky
number because, for him, it remains an eternally ‗auspicious‘
number. That was the age he fell in love for the first time.”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“The practicality of worldly trading life did not stop Zeheb from utilizing
every opportunity to learn about sainthood, and Sufism.”
― Raj Doctor

“Umit did not consider himself as a typical teenager. He was rarely
skeptical, cynical or critical of anything around him. Those are the
activities for idle mind to boost ego.”
― Raj Doctor

“He always wondered whether there was love in real life,
whether he would ever see and experience true love? What true
love could be? He never realized the ingredients of what makes true
love. He was always confused; as confused as he was while reading
about words in dictionaries.”
― Raj Doctor, Melancholy Of Innocence

“Umit thought he was a perpetual winner. An Optimist; because he
had survived every losses without complaining!”
― Raj Doctor

“Dad‟s joke was that people usually put on weight during Ramazan rather than loose it due to one-month of fasting.”
― Raj Doctor