Salman Rushdie Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Loss, Army

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.53, Macmillan

• we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the heavens and leading us to our destiny, but it's only our vanity. We look at the galaxy and fall in love, but the universe cares less about us than we do about it, and the stars stay in their courses however much we may wish upon them to do otherwise. It's true that if you watch the sky-wheel turn for a while you'll see a meteor fall, flame and die. That's not a star worth following; it's just an unlucky rock. Our fates are here on earth. There are no guiding stars.

  Salman Rushdie

  Falling In Love, Stars, Moving

  Salman Rushdie (1995). “The Moor's last sigh”

• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dust, Names, Sound

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

• Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Earthquakes, Scratches

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

• To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh?

  Salman Rushdie

  Winning, Land, Needs

• An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.

  Salman Rushdie

  Air, Land, Sky

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

• When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but if there were and so tomorrow we woke up to find no more believers on earth, no more devout Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, why then, sure the beauty of the stories would be a thing we could focus on because they wouldn't be dangerous any more, they would become capable of compelling the only belief that leads to truth, that is, the willing, disbelieving of the reader in a well-told tale.

  Salman Rushdie

  Christian, Believe, Focus

• Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Giving, Attention

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.145, Macmillan

• There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.

  Salman Rushdie

  Strong, Parent, Magic

  "Midnight's Children". Chapter 27, "The Shadow of the Mosque". Book by Salman Rushdie, 1980.

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