Rohinton Mistry Quotes

You fellows are amazing,' the sweaty cook roared over the stoves. 'Everything happens to you only. E...

I made up three lists: Candidate's Accomplishments (real and imaginary), Accusations Against Opponen...

What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a...

…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and c...

Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her ...

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness

The future was becoming past, everything vanished into the void, and reaching back to grasp for some...

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

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

A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten ...

Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. How...

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

Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it w...

The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of ...

The joy and laughter and youth they brought was an antidote to the somberness enveloping his flat, t...

Depression is a red herring," said Nariman. "I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age,...

Curious, he thought, how, if you knew a person long enough, he could elicit every kind of emotion fr...

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to rem...

The pavement artist thought for a bit, then agreed. 'I can start tomorrow morning.''Good, good. But ...

But the artist began to have misgivings as the wall underwent its transformation. Bigger than any pa...

And the further they go, the more they'll remember, they can take it from me.

Multilate. Ha Ha Ha,' said Nusswan, avuncular and willing to pretend it was a clever joke. 'Its all ...

People forget how vulnerable they are despite their shirts and shoes and briefcases, how this hungry...

the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair

Maneck studied beggermaster's excessive chatter, his attempt to hide his heartache. Why did human do...

I almost forgot to tell you - you have the right to remain silent, but if you do, my boys at the sta...

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

Narayan explained how they had spent the morning, and Dukhi laughed to hear it. the entire episode m...

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fest...

He winced at her efforts to mollify him. Why didn't she say she was disgusted with his behaviour, wi...

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there wil...

You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have t...

There must be a lot of duplication in our country’s laws," said Dukhi. "Every time there are electio...

...I always took the rearmost seat in the classroom - it gave me a good view of things. And I must c...

Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by h...

In those days," continued Ishvar, "it seemed to me that that was all one could expect in life. A har...

That's the secret - to distract the senses. Have I told you my theory about them? I think that our s...

Does it stand, but not straight enough? Is there a bend in the tool? Leaning left like the Marxist-L...

...loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm ...

Look at that crowd', he said disgustedly. 'They think it's a circus.''And not a single coin are they...

Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness ...