Pavani

“Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing but I had done another. And so?”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“To want is to wait, as I do in the place I know,
my breathing loud and single as the room,
its smell of spider dust and old perfume.”
― Jeet Thayil, Collected Poems