"To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death."

-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#Causes Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Recourse Quotes

“People have to evolve.”
“The present grows within the boundaries of the past.”
“Itâ€™s not that you have to achieve anything, itâ€™s that you have to get away from where you are.”
“Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.”
“Itâ€™s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. The day on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life.”
“If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.”

Source : Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.”
“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”

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