Rohinton Mistry Quotes

I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

I always marvel at the humans' ability to keep going. They always manage to stagger on even with tears streaming down their faces.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and ... such illumination may well come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and their works, will kindle under almost all circumstances and shed over the time-span that was given them on earth.

Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.

We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.

I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

Hope. People want hope. We crave hope. We long for hope. Hope has been present since the very beginning. And almost in the worst situations of human history, you often find the greatest amount of hope. The very nature of the situation, the way stepped-on people created within them even more hope than when things were going fine. Hope has always been around.

It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.

And I know this world is so cold and deceiving but I keep my head up like my nose is bleeding.

But what could you do? Only keep going. People kept going; they had been doing it for thousands of years. You took the kindness offered, letting it seep as far in as it could go, and the remaining dark crevices you carried around with you, knowing that over time they might change into something almost bearable.

Have patience, heart.

No human being is immune to adversity or personal setbacks.

How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.