Quotes - Vinay Makkar (Mumbai, 16, India) Showing 1-30 of 36

#1

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

12154 likes

#2

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: emotions, mercy

5071 likes

#3

“One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, emotions, hypocrisy, pain, suffering

3413 likes

#4

“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”
― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

tags: at-first-sight, emotions, healing, heartbreak, love, nicholas, nicholas-sparks, sparks

2930 likes

#5

“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

tags: emotions, life, spiritual

2396 likes

#6

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: deception, life, war

3892 likes

#7

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

7830 likes

#8

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: fair, life

6534 likes

#9

“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: life

3386 likes

#10

“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

2053 likes

#11

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: forgiveness

2010 likes

#12

“There is a way to be good again...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: inspirational

1494 likes

#13

“When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

1495 likes

#14

“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

1596 likes

#15

“She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

1309 likes

#16

“People say that eyes are windows to the soul.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: inspirational, life, metaphor

1064 likes

#17

“A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

898 likes

#18

“Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: time

1017 likes

#19

“It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

792 likes

#20

“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: honesty, lies, truth

736 likes

#21

“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: morality, war

538 likes

#22

“In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: life

471 likes

#23

“some stories don't need telling”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

435 likes

#24

“You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: kite, runner, tourist

390 likes

#25

“Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

363 likes

#26

“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

415 likes

#27

“Sad stories make good books”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: inspirational

234 likes

#28

“Life is a train, get on board.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

182 likes

#29

“Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

188 likes

#30