Rana Dasgupta famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until people die to grieve for them; you'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgment falls away, and there remains only the miracle of being.
-- Rana Dasgupta

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I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis,
-- Rana Dasgupta

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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.
When you fall for the one that owns you, sheâ€™ll be the only one that has the power to make you cry.
Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.
Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.
You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or youâ€™d never, ever stop grieving.
All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what I've discovered is that the lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place, and that only grieving can heal grief. The passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

Rana Dasgupta famous quotes

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