"Shantaram" Quotes
An Australian fugitive finds adventure and redemption in the slums of Bombay.
fiction | 936 pages | Published in 2003
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.





