Shantaram Quotes - Page 3

• Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Heart, Body, Music Is

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• Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Dark, Secret, Inspired

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• Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Myth, New Things

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• nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Grieving, Great Love, Half

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.330, Macmillan

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• A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Men, Enough, Another Man

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• The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Rip, Heart, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.563, Macmillan

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• Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around

  Gregory David Roberts

  Men, Thinking, Looks

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• There's no believing in God...We either know God, or we don't.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Believe, Knowing God, Knows

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Heart, Forever, Soul

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Eye, Waiting, Symbols

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• The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Suffering, Lovers, Precious Gifts

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.343, Macmillan

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• hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

  Gregory David Roberts

  Hate, Real, Literature

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.367, Macmillan

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• The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Rain, Men, Too Late

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.125, Macmillan

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• When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Dream, Wish, Rambling

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.137, Macmillan

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• It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

  Gregory David Roberts

  Wall, Heart, Fate

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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• There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is---- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Thinking, Heaven, World

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.235, Macmillan

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• when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Judging, Enemy, Capacity

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.53, Macmillan

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• The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Dark, Past, Mirrors

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Loneliness, Heart, Feelings

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.114, Macmillan

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• The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Air, Breathing, Water

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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• The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling ,and sewn with rebus threads.Most of the time , the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on .

  Gregory David Roberts

  Struggle, Cutting, Past

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.765, Macmillan

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• A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born.

  Yukiru Sugisaki

  Marriage, Heart, Nouns

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• I don't know what frightens me more

  Gregory David Roberts

  Knows

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.299, Macmillan

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• If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Heart, Weapons, Ends

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.412, Macmillan

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• Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.

  Gregory David Roberts

  People, Praise, Unfair

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.408, Hachette UK

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