Aporva Kala Quotes

I knew then and there only that pretty young little things are like monsoon lilies; transient trams. Catch them if you can, but if you miss them, do not wail, a next one would be whistling round the corner, about to enter the La Gurre of your heart

— Aporva Kala

“Your perception may not be my reality”

— Aporva Kala

People forget history nowadays,that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one had lived.

— Aporva Kala

Religion is like this; a prayer, a song, a flower, a white sugar ball, a chime of the brass bell, the rendering of mantra, closing one's eyes; Meditation.

— Aporva Kala

What can a fallen star wish for, but it fulfills other's wishes, is it not?

— Aporva Kala

“Tough to part; lock, stock and barrel. Something remains, like recognizable tastes and smells, which kindle the faculty of memory, yea-pricks the soul.”

— Aporva Kala

“I know it is the itch between the legs which causes everything-Wars, Religions, Marriages, Elections, Families, Globalization, Trade, Literature, Science, and for me Philosophy.”

— Aporva Kala

“Life cannot be lived without irritations and angers; fights and placation-A cycle of Karma, wheels of succor.”

— Aporva Kala

People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived.

— Aporva Kala

“He was elated by his own profundity. It was as if the gods had conspired that he be full of wisdom.”

— Aporva Kala

“And what is that thing which you promise to provide?- 'The beauty of the soul and the simplicity of happiness', he replied.”

— Aporva Kala

“Its gresham's law in operation is all walks of life and not just money: bad money drives out good money from circulation; bad writers drive out good writers from circulation, bad parents drive out good parents from nuturing, bad politicians drive out good politicians from governance, bad girls drive out good girls from heart, bad teachers drive out good teachers from classes ... But bad emotions drive out good rationality.”

— Aporva Kala

“It feels nice to know about things and about oneself.”

— Aporva Kala

“One should know what one's role is.”

— Aporva Kala

“It is the duty that separates men from boys”

— Aporva Kala

It is destiny which takes you to people who have the answers to your questions.

— Aporva Kala

“Thinking is the oil which lubricates the action we undertake.”

— Aporva Kala

“How a sip of water from a brass cup or a few drops from a brass spoon of the size of finger or how can one keep rose petals and marigold spreads between the pages of one's books for years or how the fresh shoot of barley could be put behind one's ears or how a dot of vermilion on the forehead or how fasting for a day or how praying or chanting or lightening an incense stick or how lighting a cotton wick dipped in mustard oil or how being blessed by priests and saints or how sitting in a lotus posture or how reading the holy books could kindle in one that thing called faith”

— Aporva Kala

An array of colorful camps dotted the river banks, like a Garrison of army on a peace keeping mission. A mini India; many great nations; different people living in the same place, an inversion of the notion of nation.

— Aporva Kala

“For, if after fifty you don't live the aspirations of the young, go away. Who needs needs spectacled snails, salivating on the Soma of youth.”

— Aporva Kala

All beautiful women lead a gearless life and die horribly. Like the queen- Marilyn Monroe.

— Aporva Kala

“People who are left alone tell the story but are never a part of it; those who are a part of the crowd, are story bound, acting upon the role assigned to them in the theater of living, loving and longing.”

— Aporva Kala

“Why one enjoys maternal grandparents more than the paternal ones, i have never understood, but it was like that for me.”

— Aporva Kala

“Some day, Some wish ...”

— Aporva Kala

“For the Soul; Ears are dumb,Eyes are blind,Mind is a juggler.”

— Aporva Kala

“It doesn't require jargon to describe the soul.”

— Aporva Kala

“On hindsight every failure is the best medicine, bitter but effective”

— Aporva Kala

“When the wound is fresh it hurts, more so when you are reminded to the hurt time and again”

— Aporva Kala

An orchestra of temple bells and chanting erupted suddenly like a pleasing drizzle.

— Aporva Kala

In her spare time she scribbled her thoughts, wishes and dreams, life and times. It kept her sane despite her loneliness.

— Aporva Kala

“Life, despite the accompanying loneliness that afflicts human without umbilical attachments, was to be cherished for the sheer joy of nature.”

— Aporva Kala

“Togetherness is the greatest stoning ..relations, the best snuff.”

— Aporva Kala

“The women have to suffer due to nature without compensation or an indemnity.”

— Aporva Kala

“For a girl there is a shorter version of youth.”

— Aporva Kala

“His failure became my destiny”

— Aporva Kala

Freedom is inevitable; it is only the matter of the form in which it occurs. I think it is not the freedom per se that matters but the capacity to absorb it. I could have it and yet not enjoy it.

— Aporva Kala

Love as acme of living and dying.

— Aporva Kala

“The Only mattered to him.Iconoclasm.”

— Aporva Kala

“Why love has to intense? Women's love isn't. It is a male contribution to a relationship. What does a woman contribute? Children continuity- intentional immortality.”

— Aporva Kala

“The senses assimilate the world, the maya of God.”

— Aporva Kala

People create their own gods so that they could compete with other people's gods. It is not the humanity that fights but human gods. God war. Good war.

— Aporva Kala

He shouted and he heard his shout and he feared it and shouted back asking it to keep quiet but he didn't pay any head to his shout and shouted with renewed vigor. One shouts the shout one hears.

— Aporva Kala

“The doctor always prescribes the approximate, for there aren't any set of perfect treatments for diseases.”

— Aporva Kala

“She was finally owned up- it took death as a price for her being accepted.”

— Aporva Kala

“Ah! the learning! And the fun of it? or is it the white man's burden to know more?”

— Aporva Kala

“Fork! that symbol of the British art of gluttony.”

— Aporva Kala

Why can't one live a life of disappearing?An invisible man- the real superman.

— Aporva Kala

“The phantasmogoric philosophy, ineluctable bride of mediocrity.”

— Aporva Kala

Grey is the shade of life, like shadows.

— Aporva Kala

“I thought of her as she, and she as her.”

— Aporva Kala