Mohsin Hamid Quotes

It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.

I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that the cold disorients you and makes you think that down is up and up is down, so you may be swimming, swimming, swimming for your life in the wrong direction, all the way toward the bottom until you sink. That's how I feel, as though everything has been turned around.

My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do.

The rain is falling ever harder, and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I’m drenched, but I can’t move. I don’t want to leave, because I don’t know where to go

Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool

I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.

Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation – Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves.

In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just the sensation of cold and darkness everywhere. I am so scared I could scream. But when I open my mouth, nothing happens. And I wonder if you fall forever and never touch down, is it really still falling? I think I will fall forever.

Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.

I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

This fame is a juggernaut: It slaps you in the face, and you don't know what you're doing. You don't know who has your back, who is your support system.

It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.

We are not surprised to learn that panic and confusion are hourly gaining ground in Britain.

I was paralyzed with nerves on 'Taste of Honey' and never quite knew what was going on.

I've always wondered if, at some point, everything will snap, and it'll be like 'Alice in Wonderland,' where the delightfully mad people turn into sinister mad people.

It's a crazy world!

I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on

Nothing good ever happens in a blackout. I've never woken up and been like, 'What is this Pilates mat doing out?'

Whenever there's chaos, there's ambiguity, and where there's ambiguity, there's fear. And fear gets manipulated.