Gregory David Roberts
Born: 01-01-1952
Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author renowned for his bestselling novel "Shantaram," inspired by his own life experiences. A former fugitive and heroin addict, Roberts escaped from a Melbourne prison and lived in India for a decade, which deeply influenced his writing. His works often explore themes of redemption, love, and the human spirit. Beyond writing, Roberts is involved in humanitarian efforts and music.
Book summaries for books written by Gregory David Roberts
Quotes
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.
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.
The truth is a bully we all pretend to like.
There’s a truth deeper than experience. It’s beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It’s an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy things.
The terrible irony of our education is that we learn too late that things we thought were castles were nothing but prisons.
The heart has no desire that the mind cannot fashion into a dream.
We are taught that the worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
We don't make love, love makes us.
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.
Some of the worst wrongs were caused by people who tried to change things.