“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”
―
Gregory David Roberts,
Shantaram
“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out—your friends, everyone you used to know. And it’s still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it’s going to take you down with it. I’ve seen that happen to a lot of people here. I think that’s why I’m sick of love.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“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. I realised, somehow, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn’t sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it’s all you’ve got, that freedom is an universe of possibility. And the choice you make between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“A man has to find a good woman, and when he finds her he has to win her love. then he has to earn her respect. then he has to cherish her trust. and then he has to, like, go on doing that for as long as they live. Until they both die. That's what it's all about. That's the most important thing in the world. That's what a man is, Yaar. A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you do that, you're not a man.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.” ― Gregory David Roberts
“One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting” ― Gregory David Roberts
“at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream, there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a promise to forgive. We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“The truth is a bully we all pretend to like” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“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, Shantaram
“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out—your friends, everyone you used to know. And it’s still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it’s going to take you down with it. I’ve seen that happen to a lot of people here. I think that’s why I’m sick of love.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“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. I realised, somehow, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn’t sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it’s all you’ve got, that freedom is an universe of possibility. And the choice you make between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“A man has to find a good woman, and when he finds her he has to win her love. then he has to earn her respect. then he has to cherish her trust. and then he has to, like, go on doing that for as long as they live. Until they both die. That's what it's all about. That's the most important thing in the world. That's what a man is, Yaar. A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you do that, you're not a man.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.” ― Gregory David Roberts
“One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting” ― Gregory David Roberts
“at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream, there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a promise to forgive. We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“The truth is a bully we all pretend to like” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“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, Shantaram
