But if love had to die, I wanted it to die quickly. It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

As long as one suffers one lives.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.

What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

The time has come for every Christian to change his position, to change the dimensions of his vision

When the tendencies (vruti) that were wandering around since time immemorial come within & enter into the Self’s (Soul’s) abode

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

The ways of the British are inscrutable but they always seem to obtain their own ends without compromising their dignity or their honor.

The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.

I'm a low-tech man in a high-tech world.