Quotes by Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow

“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.”

“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...”

“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.”

“A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.”

“Not very tall, not very dark but very...very handsome, was his way of describing himself.”

“Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle Hippocrates rest in peace. Its time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead.”

“Death is the only certainty in life. The moment we are born, our journey towards our final destination begins. Its the beauty or the ugliness of that journey that defines our life; the distances co...”

“Marcus Brutus was the original tragic hero of the play Julius Caesar, Aditya concluded. Perhaps, Shakespeare should have named his play Marcus Brutus. But then again, it all must have boiled down t...”

“Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odours or the most gruesome of sights.”