Quotes from Gregory David Roberts

Take counsel from he who makes you weep, not from he who makes you laugh.

Is easy—suffering is hungry, isn't it? Hungry, for anything, means suffering. Not hungry for something, means, not suffering. But everybody knows that.' 'Yes, I guess everybody does. Good night, Prabu.' 'Goodnight, Lin.

Civilization is submission, in a good cause.

I saw that liberated, unconstrained spirit wherever I looked, and I found myself responding to it with the whole of my heart.

There is no man, and no place, without war,' he replied, and it struck me that it was the most profound thing he'd ever said to me. 'The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get—who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.' 'I … I hope there's more to it than that, brother. But, shit, maybe you're right.

The fugitive kind run, trying against their hearts to annihilate the past, and with it every tell-tale trace of what they were, where they came from, and those who once loved them. And they run into that extinction of themselves, to survive, but they always fail. We can deny the past, but we can't escape its torment because the past is a speaking shadow that keeps pace with the truth of what we are, step for step, until we die.

It was as if I'd found myself in a performance of some extravagant, complex drama, and I didn't have a script. But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be.

the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those.

Politics isn't lying. It's the art of knowing who's lying.

I wish now with all my heart that I did. The past reflects eternally between two mirrors—the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again.

No smile would work, no goodbye would pray, no kindness would save, if the truth inside us wasn't beautiful. And the true heart of us, our human kind, is that we are connected, at out best, by purities of love found in no other creature

But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise.

The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise.

If you're not living for something, you're dying for nothing!

Once we wandered a free Earth, carrying a picture of our God or king to ensure safe passage. Now the world is gated, and we carry pictures of ourselves, and nobody's safe.

People always hurt us with their trust.

What I do know now, and didn't know then is that, in the long run, motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad. When all the guilt and shame for the bad we've done have run their course, it's the good we did that can save us.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.' I

of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.

Lin, ?ovek mora da na?e dobru ženu i kad je na?e mora da osvoji njenu ljubav. Onda mora da zaradi njeno poštovanje. Onda mora da ?uva njeno poverenje. I onda mora, ono, da nastavi to da radi dok je živ. DOk oboje ne umru. U tome je cela suština. To je najvažnije na svetu. To je muškarac. Muškarac je stvarno muškarac kad osvoji ljubav dobre žene, zaradi neno poštovanje i zadrži njeno poverenje. Dok to nisi u stanju da uradiš, nisi muškarac.

There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.

But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise.

Good doctors have at least three things in common: they know how to observe, they know how to listen, and they're very tired.