Alok Surya > Alok's Quotes

“You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.”
― Bob Marely

“एक नशा होता है - अन्धकार के गरजते महासागर की चुनौती स्वीकार करने का, पवर्ताकार लहरों से खाली हाथ जूझने का, अनमापी गहराइयों में उतरते जाने का और फिर अपने आप को सारे खतरों में डालकर आस्था के, पर्काश के, सत्य के, मयार्दा के, कुछ कणों को बटोर कर, बचा कर, धरातल तक ले जाने का - इस नशे में इतनी गहरी वेदना और इतना तीखा सुख घुला-मिला रहता है कि उसके आस्वादन के लिए मन बेबस हो उठता है.

- धर्मवीर भारती. 'अंधायुग' की भूमिका में.”
― धर्मवीर भारती

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.”
― Mahatma Gandhi , Gandhi: An Autobiography