A Tiger for Malgudi Quotes

“Every creature is born with a potential store of violence.”
― R.K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi

“It’s often said that God made man in His own image, it’s also true that man makes God in his own image.”
― R.K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi

“Knowledge, like food, must be taken within limits. You must know only as much as you need, and not more.”
― R.K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi

“When one is seized with a passion to understand one’s self, one has to leave behind all normal life and habitual modes of thought.”
― R.K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi

“everyone is acting a part all the time, knowingly or unknowingly.”
― R.K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi

“What you see is my old shell; inside it’s all changed. You can’t share my life.”
― R.K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi

“If you are ready to hate and want to destroy each other, you may find a hundred reasons”
― R.K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi

“all causes of rivalry and clash are senseless and so need no defining or explanation ... Don’t ever fight. No cause is worth a clash.”
― R.K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi

“violence cannot be everlasting. Sooner or later it has to go, if not through wisdom, definitely through decrepitude, which comes on with years, whether one wants it or not.”
― R.K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi

“Never use the words beast or brute. They’re ugly words coined by man in his arrogance. The human being thinks all other creatures are “beasts”.”
― R.K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi

“people only follow their inclinations, and sooner or later find their reward or retribution. That’s the natural law of life,”
― R.K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi

“You are not likely to understand that I am different from the tiger next door, that I possess a soul within this forbidding exterior. I can think, analyse, judge, remember and do everything that you can do, perhaps with greater subtlety and sense. I lack only the faculty of speech. But”
― R.K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi

“anything may spark off a fight if you are inclined to nurture hatred - only the foolish waste their lives in fighting”
― R.K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi

“I shun all activities and you have none. You have freed yourself from all duties which had been forced on you. And so you need not know what time of the day or what time of the week, or numbers, reckoning of before and after, when and how far; in short you don’t have to know the business of counting, which habit has made us human beings miserable in many ways. We have lost the faculty of appreciating the present living moment. We are always looking forward or backward and waiting for one or sighing for the other, and lose the pleasure of awareness of the moment in which we actually exist.”
― R.K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi

“I realized that deep within I was not different from human beings, and I got into their habit myself and never had a moment’s silence or stillness of mind”
― R.K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi

“with a few exceptions here and there, humans have monopolized the attention of fiction writers. Man in his smugness never imagines for a moment that other creatures may also possess ego, values, outlook, and the ability to communicate, though they may be incapable of audible speech.”
― R.K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi