Tirumalai S. Srivatsan Quotes

“I can be surrounded by a sea of people and still feel all alone ...”

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

Let people become the persons they want to be, not the person you want them to be.

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

The two of them were like oil and water. Her older sister was forever stuck in surrogate mommy role. But Viviana had never needed, nor wanted a replacement mother. Fate had seen fit to remove her biological mother, so she figured that was the way it was supposed to be.

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

Seemed like a good idea on paper.

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

This boy was likely to die soon, but he died yesterday - because of a doctor's arrogance, his unwillingness to seek a consult, his neglect to get a full and thorough history. Arrogance! We are clinicians, scientists. We observe time-honored procedures and analyses - that's how we are trained. And this is what happens when we subjugate that training to arrogance!

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

“When a straight man puts on a dress and gets his sexual kicks, he is a transvestite. When a man is a woman trapped in a man's body and has a little operation, he is a Transsexual. When a gay man has WAY too much fashion sense for one gender he is a drag queen. And when a tired little Latin boy puts on a dress, he is simply a boy in a dress!”

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

“I've found that when you want to know the truth about someone that someone is probably the last person you should ask”

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

“Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves diminishes us
because comfort and power, unless they are won from the void inside of us, are illusions that make us forget the emptyness that carries us. When we forget that, we believe we deserve comfort and power and so are capable of any evil. We deserve nothing but what we make of ourselves. We deserve nothing else. And when we understand that, then nothing is enough.”

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

“Because Of You, My Heart Exploded Into Stars”

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

“When Time is giving you chance by chance to be with the person that you really love and you miss them all, you start to believe that you'll never find that person again in this life.”

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

“Do not row your boat,
In the backwaters of past.”

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

“As an aspiring actress, having casual one-nighters, doing drugs and travelling to foreign locales at the drop of a dime was simply part of the landscape. One which Charm wholeheartedly and enthusiastically embraced. Peaches was far too familiar with Charm's wild escapade's to do more than raise an eyebrow to her casual gutter talk. One story had involved two Egyptian police officers, half a pound of weed, and if there were such a thing, one of the minor pyramids.”

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

“We turn ourselves into beasts so that we may cope with being human.”

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

“When the true love will blossom, it will be the most beautiful flower.”

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

“These kissed life on the mouth-and were eaten.”

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

Be Free!, That I want to Be !

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

God himself, sir, doesn't propose to judge man until the end of his days

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

“The biggest enemy of success is the fear of failure”

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

Whether rich or poor, following the Should Life will lead to heartache and struggle. Leading your life will lead to places you never thought you'd be, people you never thought you'd meet, knowledge you never thought you'd gain, and a life of adventure and growth. Lead your life; not the Should Life.

— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan