Autumn Shadows Quotes

“What is destiny but a creation of our own deeds and misdeeds?”
― Tomichan Matheikal, Autumn Shadows

“Fake people always think others are fake.”
― Tomichan Matheikal, Autumn Shadows

“Human life is absurd.  The universe is absurd.  We are imposing meanings on to life and the world.  Our gods and religions, our isms and systems are meanings fabricated by us.”
― Tomichan Matheikal, Autumn Shadows

“Can one receive another person’s love when one does not love oneself?”
― Tomichan Matheikal, Autumn Shadows

“We tend to hate openly in others what we dislike clandestinely in ourselves.”
― Tomichan Matheikal, Autumn Shadows

“In the hubris of my youth, I argued that Destiny was nothing more than a human invention to justify personal weaknesses and failures.”
― Tomichan Matheikal, Autumn Shadows

“The crucified Jesus became an agony for me. No, this cannot be my god, I said to myself every time I looked at the crucifix in the chapel. I wanted a god who would show me how to live in this world. Live, and not give up and die a miserable death on a cross.”
― Tomichan Matheikal, Autumn Shadows

“Shillong had its fair share of unemployment problems. Every now and then the resentment against immigrants who owned land and houses in the town flared up in the form of communal attacks.”
― Tomichan Matheikal, Autumn Shadows

“At the back of my mind there was always the feeling that I was nothing more than dkhar in Shillong, an outsider who didn’t belong there.”
― Tomichan Matheikal, Autumn Shadows

“Howrah railway station is an ocean of people like most railway stations in the big cities of India.”
― Tomichan Matheikal, Autumn Shadows

“Illusions of grandeur are one of the many hazards of inner emptiness.”
― Tomichan Matheikal, Autumn Shadows

“Did I envy the dead?”
― Tomichan Matheikal, Autumn Shadows

“Morality is an invention of the powerful to impose their will on the subordinates with ease and nearly as much slyness.”
― Tomichan Matheikal, Autumn Shadows

“Religion is a solace for people’s deepest sorrows. Religion is a good palliative for the inescapable pains of life.”
― Tomichan Matheikal, Autumn Shadows