Quotes by Anurag Shourie

“But thats the way life is; felicity and expiation play together in the narrow lanes of life like bosom friends, inseparable. You find one, and the other is always around the corner.”

“Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon's knife.”

“The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.”

“There is a very thin line of demarcation dividing true love from unadulterated lust. What is love without the pleasures of the flesh and what is lust sans a fluttering heart?”

“Love is just like God. Some believe in it, some dont. You can only feel love and that too if you are open to its existence. Likewise, an atheist cannot feel the presence of the divine because his m...”

“We use the word LOVE for camouflaging so many of our emotions. Why cant we use different words to convey different feelings? Why use a word when we dont sincerely mean it?”

“Every war has its martyrs the unsung heroes who sometimes dont even know the rationale behind the war they are fighting. They fight because they are trained to, kill because they are told to and d...”

“An idle mind is a devils workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.”

“Dharma is not about believing in God. Its about making the right choices, doing the right things and leading the right life.”

“Its a strange feeling when you realise that you have become a passive bystander, watching the quirks of your own fate with an icy indifference.”

“There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness.”

“The best-laid plans can fail for the lack of proper execution.”

“Everyone in this world is Abhimanyu, the difference being that most of us are trapped in a labyrinth of our own creation. It takes a lifetime for people to realise that the way out lies in their ow...”

“Take it easy. Live life- one day at a time. It is only when we add the regrets of 'yesterday' and worries of the 'future' to the 'present' that we end up complicating things...”

“Be it a 'slide' in a childrens park, or one in the play-fields of life; the mantra is same. You climb up and you slide down.What is missing in the later years is the enthusiasm with which the kids ...”

“There is nothing more agonising than the memory of good times when you are going through a difficult period in life. Life moves in only one direction - forward, but the memoirs of years gone by kee...”

“Tears can ruin the handiwork of the best beautician.”

“Destiny plays its cards in a way that no one can comprehend.”

“For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care of, so that it may survive for a longer period.”

“The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.”