Taniya B. Talwar > Taniya's Quotes

“That is the case with us all papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasure of others.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“If people were superior to animals, they'd take better care of the world.”
― Benjamin Hoff

“Do you realize that all great literature - Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, A Farewell to Arms, The Scarlet Letter, The Red Badge of Courage, The Illiad and The Odyssey, Crime and Punishment, The Bible, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade" - are all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? (Isn't it such a relief to have someone say that?)”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

“The good earth - we could have saved it, but we were too cheap and lazy.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“You know what reflects us? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty five. "Listen. You should know something. All younger people should know something. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“Suppose you are advertising lemonade, or not to be invidious, we will say perry. If you say 'Our perry is made from fresh-plucked pears only,' then it's got to be made from pears only, or the statement is actionable; if you just say it is made 'from pears', without the 'only' the betting is that it is probably made chiefly of pears; but if you say, 'made with pears', you generally mean that you use a peck of pears to a ton of turnips, and the law cannot touch you - such are the niceties of our English tongue.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise

“Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“What was essential in the ancient world was that everything we call culture was somehow applicable to everyday life. How can poetry, music, painting, calligraphy be made personal, transmuted into the essence of everyday life, that is, how can all this become life itself - will it become my life, in the final analysis, and am I capable of leading my life according to the concepts of a highly refined tradition? In ancient tradition, art, philosophy and life were not sharply differentiated. In today's world, the connection between tradition and everyday life has been shattered. (In book Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens)”
― László Krasznahorkai