"They were things for which it was impossible……" — Jhumpa Lahiri
"They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end."
—
Jhumpa Lahiri
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
85 Quotes by Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri has 85 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning…
-
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
-
A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!
-
I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.
-
A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading,
-
A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
-
Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks,…
-
Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.
-
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain…
-
I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.
-
I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have…
-
On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which…
See all 85 quotes by Jhumpa Lahiri »
More Accept Quotes
This quote is filed under Accept Quotes,
one of 4,888 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
-
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
-
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
-
If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
-
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
-
Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
-
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
-
But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
-
Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
-
During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
-
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
See all 4,888 Accept Quotes »