Shantaram Quotations

Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

I don't know what frightens me more

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

Shantaram is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to Shantaram, the first a prequel.

There's no believing in God...We either know God, or we don't.

I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future.

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time

Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.

Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you..

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

There's no heart like the Indian heart.

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.