Quote by R.K. Narayan

Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact…

— R.K. Narayan

“If he(Mani) were Swaminathan, he would have closed the whole incident at the beginning by hurling an ink-bottle, if nothing bigger was available, at…

— R.K. Narayan

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.

— R.K. Narayan

“Then there was Mani, the Mighty Good-For-Nothing. He towered above all the other boys of the class. He seldom brought any books to the…

— R.K. Narayan

“It was Monday morning. Swaminathan was reluctant to open his eyes. he considered Monday specially unpleasant in the calendar. After the delicious freedom of…

— R.K. Narayan

A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.

— R.K. Narayan

“What you see is my old shell; inside it’s all changed. You can’t share my life.”

— R.K. Narayan

“I came in several times and spoke, but perhaps you were asleep when I thought you were awake.' 'You are very considerate to explain…

— R.K. Narayan

“Words have a knack of breeding more words, whereas laughter, a deafening, roaring laughter, has the knack of swallowing everything up.”

— R.K. Narayan

Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

— R.K. Narayan

“He then explained his new philosophy, which followed the devastating discovery that Love and Friendship were the veriest illusions. He explained that people married…

— R.K. Narayan

“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