David Roberts
David Roberts
David Roberts quotes about
depressing years advice
There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me. Frankly, I am shocked at you. You must know this, surely? Some years ago I suffered such an offensively gratuitous piece of good advice that I was depressed for six months afterward. It was a very close call - I almost never recovered.
heart mean men
The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term; the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them.
cousin real like-love
Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.
shantaram myth new-things
Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
misuse nations immune
but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.
real moving heart
The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.
running stories happy-endings
I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.
voice half afghan
The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.
rain men too-late
The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.
real world
The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.
ocean blood sweat
We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.
grieving great-love half
nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.
loyalty honesty hate
For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.
nuts shells should
Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.