Rohinton Mistry Quotes

But it was an unrefrigerated world. And everything ended badly.

The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.

Children don't make judgments about which details are important ... a child captures them all.

But that was always the case. People hardly ever saw their children as they really were.

When a culture vanishes, humanity is the loser.

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure ...

I almost forgot to tell you - you have the right to remain silent, but if you do, my boys at the station will process your bones to help you confess.

He spent long hours meditating on the wisdom of loving living things which invariably ended up dead.

When a culture vansihes, humanity is the loser.

The lives of the poor are rich in symbols.

It is not a question of crime and punishment
it is problem and solution.

All things fall and are built again, and those that build them again are gay

The human face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no room for crying.

Time had changed the magical to mundane

Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

Like trapped animals struggling to break free. What a curse was sickness in old age. This damned Parkinson's, cruel as torture.

Time, the ultimate grandmaster that could never be checkmated. There was no way out of its distended belly.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

Democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion

He wanted his noises to touch the others; friendly noises could melt hostility.

Haunted by the unhappiness that appeared like an ugly creature to live in their home

The face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

This was an outstanding family subject in our real life.

A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in order to get the most out of it.

Soon the evening gloom would materialize, infect the fibre-filled air, drape itself over her bed, depress her from now till morning.

If you ignore little things, they become big problems.

The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

Independence came at a high price: a debt with a payment schedule of hurt and regret.

The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

Make up your mind, yaar, choose one thing.'
'How can I? I'm just a human being,' he replied

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.

Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize ...

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake

Daughter-in-law is just a word. Call her anything you like. The hand of good fortune is not fussy about words.

The secret of survival was to balance hope and despair

He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

He had learned that dignity could not be acquired from accoutrements and accessories; it cam unasked, it grew from one's ability to endure.

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness

Please do not bring female visitors of the opposite sex into rooms.

Hell has ways of permeating heaven's membrane.

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

Flirting with madness is one thing. But when madness starts flirting back, its time to call the whole thing off.

If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.