Suvojit

“একশত বৎসর একসঙ্গে থাকিলেও কেহ হয়তো আমার হৃদয়ের বাহিরে থাকিয়া যায়, যদি না কোনো বিশেষ ঘটনায় সে আমার হৃদয়ের কবাট খুলিতে পারে।”
― Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Aparajito, Yang tak Terkalahkan

“when we were kids
laying around the lawn
on our
bellies

we often talked
about
how
we'd like to
die

and
we all
agreed on the
same
thing;

we'd all
like to die
fucking

(although
none of us
had
done any
fucking)

and now
that
we are hardly
kids
any longer

we think more
about
how
not to
die

and
although
we're
ready

most of
us
would
prefer to
do it
alone

under the
sheets

now
that

most of
us

have fucked
our lives
away.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“Governments like it that way. They want their people to see war as a drama of opposites, good and evil, “them” and “us,” victory or defeat. But war is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.”
― Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

“মানুষের আয়ু মানুষের জীবনের ভুল মাপকাঠি। দশ বছরের জীবন সে উপভোগ করেছে দেড় বছরে।”
― Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, চাঁদের পাহাড়