Aishwarya > Aishwarya's Quotes

“She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out—your friends, everyone you used to know. And it’s still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it’s going to take you down with it. I’ve seen that happen to a lot of people here. I think that’s why I’m sick of love.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realised, somehow, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn’t sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it’s all you’ve got, that freedom is an universe of possibility. And the choice you make between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live. ”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love”
― Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

“She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

“Some folks want their luck buttered.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

“She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play”
― Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.

My business is to tear them apart.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“He had tried everything, cutting down (many devices), pipes, cigars, even cold turkey. He had quit once in Rome, for seven hours after breakfast, during the last two of which his (first) wife was begging him to take it up again.”
― John Berryman, Recovery: A Novel

“There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).”
― John Berryman, Recovery

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

“Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

“He thought how much he liked her and had in common with her, and how much she'd like and have in common with him if she only knew him.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
― Mae West