Silence is the tortured man's revenge.
Powerful people have no regrets.
The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.
The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise. I felt an almost irresistible urge to take her hand and place it flat against my chest, near my heart. Maybe I should've done it. I know now that she would've laughed, if I'd done it, and she would've liked me for it. But strangers that we were then, we stood for five long seconds and held the stare, while all the parallel worlds, all the parallel lives that might've been, and never would be, whirled around us.
The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.
A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.
Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around
Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.
The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.
In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.
Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.
The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.
Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.
Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.
Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it.
Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.
Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.
Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.
Shantaram is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to Shantaram, the first a prequel.
The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.
The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.
While the foods were being prepared, I watched as men dragged a foot-operated grinding wheel into an open space, and the groom devoted a tense hour to putting a razor's edge to a large, ornate dagger. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl.
It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.
Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.
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