Salman Rushdie Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Life, Ninety Nine, Ideas

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

• ‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

  Salman Rushdie

  Inspirational, Life, Ideas

  "Salman Rushdie Voices Support for Charlie Hebdo After Paris Shooting". www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 7, 2015.

• Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

  Salman Rushdie

  Inspirational, Life, Practice

• To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

  Salman Rushdie

  Life, Children, World

  "Midnight's Children". Book by Salman Rushdie, 1981.

• I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

  Salman Rushdie

  Life, Destiny, Gone

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.535, Random House

• How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?

  Salman Rushdie

  Life, Fall, Blow

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