If you’d been born and raised in Palestine, you’d know that some people are born to suffer. And it never stops, for them. Not for a second. You’d know where real suffering comes from. It’s the same pl...
If you stare into its cold dead eye, the camera always mocks you with the truth.
I'd lost the mark on the psychic map that says 'You Are Here'.
I would say that it is different for all of us, but that it happens when we grow up, when we mature and pass from the childishness of our youthful tears, and become adults. I think that it is a part o...
I would say that [suffering] is different for all of us, but that it happens when we grow up, when we mature and pass from the childishness of our youthful tears, and become adults. I think that it is...
I was thinking about another kind of river, one that runs through every one of us, no matter where we come from, all over the world. It’s the river of the heart, and the heart’s desire. It’s the pure,...
I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future,’ she said slowly. ‘I think the future is like anything else that’s important. It has to be earned. If we don’t earn it, we don’t ha...
I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And ho...
I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.
I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.’ She
I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live. – G. D. Roberts, Shantaram.
I should’ve listened to her—she told me almost nothing, but she did give me clues, and I know now that she put signs in her words and expressions that were as clear as the constellations over our head...
I know it isn’t cruelty or shame that characterises the human race. It’s forgiveness that makes us what we are.
I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.
I began to see how deep the well of her loving was, and how much her happiness and confidence depended on drawing that love into the light, and sharing it. And love was beautiful in her. It was a clea...
How old is he?’ ‘Thirty.’ ‘He looks older.’ ‘They all do. All the Europeans look older and angrier than they really are. It’s a white thing.
Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.
Hatred always leaves a stain on the veil. But sometimes the hatred isn’t your own. Sometimes you’re chained, and the hatred beaten into you is another man’s, grown in a different heart, and it takes l...
God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.
For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil...