“Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
― Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
― Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
“For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away …”
― After the Funeral
― After the Funeral
“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
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“Never to have been born is best But if we must see the light, the next best Is quickly returning whence we came. When youth departs, with all its follies, Who does not stagger under evils? Who escapes them?
Sophocles'
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, The best would be never to have been born at all.
Heinrich Heine2”
― Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
Sophocles'
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, The best would be never to have been born at all.
Heinrich Heine2”
― Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
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