Ashim Shanker Quotes
What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself?
Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.
Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.
The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace, and then networks of fading shimmers
At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?
The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.
Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!
All high mathematics serves to do is to beget higher mathematics.
The temporal heart resonates at whispersFrom a Truth overarchingOf whose countenanceTimeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom
Etchings endure, But not in SandMeanings Collide To Unresolved FragmentsCodes fizzle to StaticThey are not lostBut UnheardNever lostFading slowly to SilenceBy infinite degrees
Innumerable arcs intersect and scatter into a vast indefinite sea.
Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature—a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.
Comfort...was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.
Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.