Quotes by Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow

“But that’s 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.”

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

“Love is just like God. Some believe in it, some don’t. 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 ...”

“We use the word ‘LOVE’ for camouflaging so many of our emotions. Why can’t we use different words to convey different feelings? Why use a word when we don’t sincerely mean it?”

“Every war has its martyrs — the unsung heroes who sometimes don’t even know the rationale behind the war they are fighting. They fight because they are trained to, kill because they are told to and...”

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

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

“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. It’s time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead.”

“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 do...”