Devdutt Pattanaik Quotes

We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.

Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.

Death is only a small interruption.

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Time marks us while we are marking time.

Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.

God, life changes faster than you think.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

Life continues, irrespective of whether we are there or not.

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

My bits of time play with eternity.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.