Viraj Gupta

“With total rapture and delight he talks about the birds which he can see from his prison window, and which he had never noticed before, when he was a minister. Now of course, after he's been released, he doesn't notice the birds anymore, just as beforehand. In the same way you won't notice Moscow, when you actually live there.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters

“The pleasure in this world, it has been said, outweighs the pain; or, at any rate, there is an even balance between the two. If the reader wishes to see shortly whether this statement is true, let him compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is engaged in eating the other.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessings. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.”
― A.A. Lewis

“Is it painful to be the person who waits? Or is it more painful to be the person who makes others wait? Either way, there's no need to wait anymore. That's what is most painful." - Osamu Dazai”
― Osamu Dazai, Run, Melos! and Other Stories