SHANTARAM ~ Quotes
More Quotes from Shantaram
"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to be in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured"
"Astounding and puzzling images from the city tumbled and turned in my mind like leaves on a wave of wind, and my blood so thrilled with hope and possibility that I couldn't suppress a smile, lying there in the dark...In that moment, in those shadows, I was almost safe"
"The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say"
"Its beyond what we see or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from perception. We're helpless in the face of it and the cost of knowing love is sometimes greater than any heart would willingly pay" Quote suggested by Member: KatieJ
"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. I didn't know that then, as I closed my eyes in the dark and breathing silence on that first night in Bombay. I was running on instinct, and pushing my luck. I didn't know that I'd already given my heart of the woman, and the city. And knowing none of it, I fell, before the smile faded from my lips, into a dreamless, gentle sleep." Quote suggested by Member: Alys
"Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears" Quote suggested by Member: Ali07
"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" Quote suggested by Member: tiger_rider
"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."
"..and sometimes my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowing in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep."
"In this way justice is done...because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving...justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the was we try to save them."
"I pushed through alone to the slap and sting of sunlight outside the airport, intoxicated with the exhilaration of escape: another wall scaled, another border crossed, another day and night to run and hide"
"My heart thumped under the command of the new climate. Each breath was an angry little victory... the choking humidity makes amphibians of us all"
"I tried to fix my eyes on the clear and perfect stars of that fated night's black heaven, but again and again my concentration lapsed, and I found myself staring at the dark edge of the plateau. And I knew, in the way we know without a word that love is lost, or in the sudden, sure way we know that a friend is flase..."
"If you stare into its cold dead eye, the camera always mocks you with the truth...It was impossible to tell from that photo how much those men had loved to laugh, and how readily they'd smiled...only my own eyes stared back at me as I held the picture in my bandaged hands, and remembered the names of the men leaning together in the ragged lines."
"..When the great rain came, it was a lake of water in the air, and it rained almost without pause for seven days and nights"
"I dragged my eyes from the sight of them, as boatmen drag a lake with starry hooks. My mouth was dry. My heart was a prisoner pounding on the walls inside my head"
All Quotes © Gregory David Roberts.
All Quotes © Gregory David Roberts.
