Sujit Kumar > Sujit's Quotes

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
― Robert Frost

“An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.”
― Carl Jung

“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
― Oscar Wilde

“That's the horror of it for me, that I understand everything!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. ”
― Archimedes

“Fuck my stupid baka life”
― Kafka Franz

“The human obsession with purpose is merely a distraction from the absurdity of existence”
― GOGOL NIKOLAI

“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.”
― Gertrude Stein

“Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.If there’s the hundredth part of a false note in speaking the truth, it leads to a discord, and that leads to trouble.But if all, to the last note, is false in flattery, it is just as agreeable, and is heard not without satisfaction. It may be a coarse satisfaction, but still a satisfaction. And however coarse the flattery, at least half will be sure to seem true. That’s so for all stages of development and classes of society. -Svidrigailov (Crime and Punishment)”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
― Marie Curie

“Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.”
― Michael Caine

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.”
― Louis Zamperini

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
― Aristotle

“Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have
Immortal longings in me: now no more
The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip:
Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear
Antony call; I see him rouse himself
To praise my noble act; I hear him mock
The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men
To excuse their after wrath: husband, I come:
Now to that name my courage prove my title!
I am fire and air; my other elements
I give to baser life. So; have you done?
Come then, and take the last warmth of my lips.
Farewell, kind Charmian; Iras, long farewell.

Kisses them. IRAS falls and dies

Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall?
If thou and nature can so gently part,
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch,
Which hurts, and is desired. Dost thou lie still?
If thus thou vanishest, thou tell'st the world
It is not worth leave-taking.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education

“I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”
― Genghis Khan

“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“गंगा की लहरों में बहता हुआ राख का साँप टूट-फूटकर बिखर चुका था और नदी फिर उसी तरह बहने लगी थी जैसे कभी कुछ हुआ ही न हो। ”
― Dharamvir Bharati, गुनाहों का देवता

“या तो प्यार आदमी को बादलों की ऊँचाई तक उठा ले जाता है , या स्वर्ग से पाताल में फेंक देता है।लेकिन कुछ प्राणी हैं, जो न स्वर्ग के हैं न नरक के, वे दोनों लोकों के बीच में अंधकार की परतों में भटकते रहते हैं। वे किसी को प्यार नहीं करते, छायाओं को पकड़ने का प्रयास करते हैं, या शायद प्यार करते हैं या निरंतर नयी अनुभूतियों के पीछे दीवाने रहते हैं और प्यार बिलकुल करते ही नहीं ......... कपूर, मैं उसी अभागे लोक की एक प्यासी आत्मा थी।”
― धर्मवीर भारती [Dharamvir Bharati], गुनाहों का देवता