Rohinton Mistry Quotes

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

I am infected with life and will die of it in time.

All who are born are always dying.

Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.

We die, because we live.

Our souls are prisoners of the terror of death, and the day is beautiful.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I’ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder

And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)

I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.

Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.

We are born knowing death.

There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.

It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life...

But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.

As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his own death would in the first place mean that of the whole world?

I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality.

I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies.