Indian Author Quotes

“When we two parted,
there was no agony in either
of the two
who
lived all our lives together,
so close and near,
and so, so dear
one could hardly guess
one from the other.”
― Alok Mishra, Thoughts Between Life and Death

“Time has wasted itself
doing absolutely nothing!
I only wish it could turn back
and bring
me another opportunity
to experience and see,
fathom and breathe,
live with her and leave
the world on its own,
that night of passionate solitude.”
― Alok Mishra, Thoughts Between Life and Death

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Mistakes are not bad; excuses are.”
― Udai Yadla

“Believe in your greatness. Because what you believe is what you become.”
― Udai Yadla

“When you treat your failures as lessons, you can never fail.”
― Udai Yadla

“Don't care about success or failure. Keep doing what you love. Success will follow.”
― Udai Yadla

“Everything in this world happens with a purpose. You are born in this world with a purpose, you are chosen by purpose.”
― Udai Yadla, A Walk in the Rain

“Thank people who help you because they make you happy. Thank people who don't help you because they make you strong.”
― Udai Yadla

“Change the world, I know I won’t,
Enthralling as always I hope it remains,
A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain.
But my only wish as I take this jaunt,
Is for my words on you to impress upon,
A smile, a tear or even an angry frown.”
― Anurag Anand

“You have not failed until you accept your failure.”
― Udai Yadla

“When you stop complaining about others for not helping you and focus on your efforts; there’s no stopping you.”
― Udai Yadla

“Failure is the greatest teacher.”
― Udai Yadla

“Only if I knew
that knowing it would bring
a burden I could seldom carry
and ferry among those I know,
only to be rejected.”
― Alok Mishra, Thoughts Between Life and Death

“After all, love without self-sacrifice was just lust”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“A thing of beauty is said to last forever, unless it begins to speak. Mati thanked the Storm God that her Lamb had not proposed marriage. Nothing ruins an affair more than an effort to make it last.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“Love is the faith that that one person will stand by you, through your mistakes, through your rotten behaviour, through it all, even if no one else does. That one person can make your world. But without that one person, the whole world falls to pieces.”
― Summerita Rhayne

“You are either a resident or an immigrant. Only, a resident is an immigrant further along in the transition.”
― Daksh Tyagi, Signs of Life

“Anyone or anything can be made famous. Technology has truly elevated the trivial. This is the true curse of our times.”
― Daksh Tyagi, Signs of Life

“If the matter is only about heaven
Let me stay with my beloved people
But if there is a promise of the glimpse of you
Oh God, Then Take my life right now”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"

“You have to become a thief in order to rob the thief who robbed you.”
― Ashish Khetarpal, Pushing Gods Out

“Because that was what Vasu always did with every relationship in his life—he cherished them like priceless treasures.”
― K. Poojitha, The Promise of Love

“Love creeps in slowly. You might not even notice it as in its own pace, it fills your heart, body, and soul, and then, one fine day, in one moment, like lightning, it strikes you that you've lost yourself to someone else and in the process found love.”
― K. Poojitha, The Promise of Love

“Ms. Kalvi gave Maanvizhi a conch and told her to place it upon her ear. She promised that Maanvizhi would now be able to imagine the ocean”
― Priyadarshini, The Postwoman and Other Stories

“Being young has nothing to do with age. You’re young if you get lectured about your future. You are old if you carry around your past.”
― Daksh Tyagi, A Nuclear Family

“Armstrong was wrong. Before a giant leap, we must take one small step.”
― Daksh Tyagi, Signs of Life

“A narcissistic mother's love comes with a price tag, draining her son's pockets and leaving his heart empty, a constant reminder that her affection is for sale, not freely given.”
― Shaila Touchton

“Now he gets the value of the everyday stuff in the Peshwa museums. What is the culture of a place or people other than this - how we lived and how we died? What is an identity butt an accretion of all those sensations, however fleeting or slight, aroused by every encounter with the world that tells you where and among whom you belong… or do not?”
― Devika Rege, Quarterlife

“Jesus taught his followers to think of God as Father. In India it is more common to speak of God as Divine Mother. Saints of various persuasions have successfully communed with God by similarly idealizing other human relations — such as Friend or Beloved. It makes no difference. When I feel the gravity of wisdom, I speak of God as the Father. When I feel unbounded, unconditional love I call God Divine Mother. When I feel God as the nearest of the near, supporter and confidant, I call Him Friend. Thus, it is a misnomer to refer to God always as "He." It is equally appropriate to call God "She." But in the ultimate, God is Spirit, neither masculine nor feminine. Spirit is above any human correlation. Similarly, the soul is neither male nor female, though karmic inclinations cause it to incarnate either with the body of a man or a woman.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You (2 Volume Set) 1St edition by Yogananda, Paramahansa published by Self-Realization Fellowship Hardcover

“Name My Caste

My mom who birthed me is one caste
My Dad who raised me another caste
The man I married whose heart I wed
Is from another caste, it's said.

I studied where the caste was cast out,
Where dreams and goals just carried out.
So now you ask, "Which caste are you?"
I ask right back, "Which caste are you?"

You name my caste? I’ll name yours too.
Let’s play this game, just us two.
Doctor, Lawyer, Judge, Police,
PhDs preaching caste, not peace.

You claim to lead, to lift, to guide,
Yet drag old chains you wear with pride.
You move ahead but think behind,
A forward world with backward mind.

I don’t belong to caste or clan,
I only belong to God’s own plan.
So mark me not by caste or past,
I am what God designed to last.”
― Luffina Lourduraj