The World We Found Quotes

“Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.”
― Thrity Umrigar, The World We Found

“What she had believed was indignation or rage or a deep intolerance for injustice came down to this: she was irreducibly in love with this bewitching planet, this thrilling life, this heartbreaking species she belonged to, with its capacity for stupefying destruction and breathtaking magnanimity.”
― Thrity Umrigar, The World We Found

“So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important--our quarrels, or philosophical differences--in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In the end, what matters is what remains.”
― Thrity Umrigar, The World We Found

“What was that wonderful quote by Truman Capote? More tears have been shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
― Thrity Umrigar, The World We Found

“The clarifying principle made clear the impermanence of things. It was an illusion, all of it—this life that they clung to, this earth that they battled over—a collective exercise in self-deception. The world was perishable.”
― Thrity Umrigar, The World We Found

“The sun was a red bindi dot on the forehead of the sky as they started their walk.”
― Thrity Umrigar, The World We Found

“If only it were a choice between living and dying. If only. But it isn’t. It’s between dying on your own terms and dying on someone else’s.”
― Thrity Umrigar, The World We Found

“She was in love. Hopelessly, helplessly, tenderly, in love with the world. A sob formed in Armaiti’s throat as she lay on her couch, the weak afternoon light pouring in through the large windows. What she had believed was indignation or rage or a deep intolerance for injustice came down to this: she was irreducibly in love with this bewitching planet, this thrilling life, this heartbreaking species she belonged to, with its capacity for stupefying destruction and breathtaking magnanimity. It all astonished her—the vivid greens, the searing blue of the sky, the splendor of the ocean, the pockmarked perfection of the moon, the stunning grandeur of her own backyard.”
― Thrity Umrigar, The World We Found

“Two things make us do bad things in life - fear and pride.”
― Thrity Umrigar, The World We Found

“old days,”
― Thrity Umrigar, The World We Found