Chandravir Dev > Chandravir's Quotes

“What a woman tells her lover in desire
should be written out on air & running water.”
― Catullus, I Hate and I Love

“all is the same
time has gone by
some day you come
some day you'll die
someone has died
long time ago.”
― Cesare Pavese

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss”
― Sigmund Freud

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“The hottest love has the coldest end.”
― Socrates

“Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell”
― Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The House of Life

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment