Salman Rushdie Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch and we are all its slaves.

  Salman Rushdie

  Real, Dust, Water

• Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the more time passes, the harder it gets...My father said that the natural world gave us explanations to compensate for the meanings we could not grasp. The slant of the cold sunlight on a winter pine, the music of water, an oar cutting the lake and the flight of birds, the mountains' nobility , the silence of the silence. We are given life but must accept that it is unattainable and rejoice in what can be held in the eye, the memory, the mind.

  Salman Rushdie

  Memories, Father, Eye

• 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

• Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?

  Salman Rushdie

  Air, Water, Elements

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

• Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie.

  Salman Rushdie

  Lying, Men, Water

• Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, Eye, Water

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

• We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fashion, Cutting, Kissing

  "Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002". Book by Salman Rushdie, 2003.

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