From Books

This is from Charlie Chaplin's autobiography. He was talking about a particular dialogue from his film Monsieur Verdoux(1947) which really made me think.

Henri Verdoux: It's the approach of death that terrifies.
The Girl: I suppose, if the unborn knew of the approach of life, they'd be just as terrified.

 “She said, ‘I’m so afraid.’
And I said,‘why?,’ and she said, ‘Because I’m so
profoundly happy.
 Happiness like this is
frightening.’ I asked her why and she
said, ‘They only let you be this happy if
they’re preparing to take something
from you.’”

— The Kite Runner, By Khaled Hosseini.

 

 

 Shantaram is a book that I will always advise till eternity fails. Few quotes that just blew my mind are.

• Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting.
• Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
• A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.
• Silence is the tortured mans revenge
• If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke
• News is about what people do. Gossip is about how they enjoyed doing it
• Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it’s the other way around
• There’s no meanness too spiteful or too cruel, when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons
• At first,  when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one  will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread instead is that we  won’t stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone.
• There is nothing as depressing as good advice.
• All horse good. All man not good.

 

 "Children aren't colouring books. You don't get to fill them with your favourite colours."

 -Kite Runner, Khaled Hossieni