Ravi Singh

“What were the present and future to him, he who did not fear the sandstorm? Did he know what fortune and misfortune mean, and what our tortured hearts called hope?”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

“In the first hour of the new day, in the cold, strong wind that already reaches our native shores, yes, in this one moment of eternally returning regret I realise: what staggers us, over and over again, is the morning splendour of departure!”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

“This sufficed: the overwhelming monument to the man who had not feared the poverty and grandeur of the steppe, so alien to all human measure. I breathed deep and tried, despite all, to salute life...”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

“I saw it dissolve into a strangely clear horizon-there, a striated pyramid, stood the extinct volcano, a pain filled, deeply moving sight: permanence.”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey