Best Rohinton Mistry Quotes
- Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the… All
- But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the… Both
- Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but… Beautiful
- Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off. Call
- ...there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the… All
- The whole quilt is much more important than any single square. Any
- What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time… Band
- ...loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding… All
- …God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to… Abandoned
- ...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying. Cry
- What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end.… Age
- The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake Carnage
- Let me tell you a secret: there is no such thing as an uninteresting life One day you must tell me your full and complete… Aside
- World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps Ambition
- Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure... Ability
- If time were a bolt of cloth,” said Om, “I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together… All
- Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain. Both
- Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder Bidder
- Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people. Changed
- You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them, sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to… Beyond