148 quotes found
"The thing which identifies is called eyes,understands is called brain, listens is called ear and feels is heart. To be devoid of these four things is the signs of being a beast."
"On the issue of depth, difficulty doesn't imply depth. Difficulty doesn't mean Art, incomprehensibility doesn't have any value."
"Among various games of man created to engage his mind, gambling is the most interesting and which comes the nearest to life's gain-loss, rise-fall."
"I enjoy gambling, I find ample opportunity in gambling to engage my mind and study."
"It is a cowardice to not move forward in opportunity. We cannot live in a life devoid of danger."
"That we usually call Education is making man stupid."
"Schools are industries to manufacture machines."
"In the fields of life there isn't any geometry. Here if whole is taken out from the whole then whole itself remains. Inside one is substance, inside atom is the world. Science cannot find everything and our psychological studies end within the darkness of intellect. This is why no teacher can teach."
"I cannot ridicule their every idea but in most things my vote is against the education system."
"The soul is desiring one thing, education is providing something else."
"The amount I have learned till B.A, I believe in three years time i can put inside little children's mind better, reciting stories..."
"I call education that, which makes man a complete human, which teaches to utilize time...manufactures belief..."
"I want to bow my head as if the all pervading God is scolding me. I know that i am a sinner."
"Truth shines through feelings..But in the heart there is the brightness of God. I assume feelings or emotions as primary, desiring and thinking come later."
"Civilization has not yet started. We haven't learned to respect life. After our brotherhood feeling becomes rigid then only will real progress start."
"All dharmas hide inside the mother's heart. To receive is dhamra."
"As long as we aspire to become great in this world or keep feelings to do things and show our pride, Bairagya is impossible."
"There is fun in being small; we can see other's importance dancing around. There is pleasure in the peacefulness of ego; we can see other's charade."
"I want to see what is there in the heart! Natural curiosity!"
"To doubt is better, because it helps understand, aids searching. Question is everything, answer is maturity."
"What will we do with gold?" "It is better to eat nettles and satisfy our souls,""
"A man's greatness is determined by his heart not by the caste and the lineage he brings."
"Oh yes, friend! I'm crazy- that's just the way I am."
"I see sounds, I hear sights, I taste smells, I touch not heaven but things from the underworld, things people do not believe exist, whose shapes the world does not suspect."
"You're clever, quick with words, your exact equations are right forever and ever. But in my arithmetic, take one from one- and there's still one left. You get along with five senses, I with a sixth. You have a brain, friend, I have a heart. A rose is just a rose to you- to me it's Helen and Padmini. You are forceful prose I liquid verse. When you freeze I melt, When you're clear I get muddled and then it works the other way around. Your world is solid, mine vapor, yours coarse, mine subtle. You think a stone reality; harsh cruelty is real for you. I try to catch a dream, the way you grasp the rounded truth of cold, sweet coin."
"I called the Navab's wine blood, the painted whore a corpse, and the king a pauper. I attacked Alexander with insults, and denounced the so-called great souls. The lowly I have raised on the bridge of praise to the seventh heaven. Your learned pandit is my great fool, your heaven my hell, your gold my iron, friend! Your piety my sin. Where you see yourself as brilliant I find you a dolt. Your rise, friend-my decline. That's the way our values are mixed up, friend! Your whole world is a hair to me. Oh yes, friend, I'm moonstruck through and through- moonstruck! That's just the way I am."
"I see the blind man as the people's guide, the ascetic in his cave a deserter; those who act in the theater of lies I see as dark buffoons. Those who fail I find successful, and progress only backsliding. am I squint-eyed, Or just crazy? Friend, I'm crazy. Look at the withered tongues of shameless leaders, The dance of the whores At breaking the backbone on the people's rights. When the sparrow-headed newsprint spreads its black lies In a web of falsehood"
"Art is the beautiful illustration of Truth from the creative imagination. The truth is in our life and unless it comes from the formlessness to the form we do not realize it."
"The chief element of creation is love and the chief action of love is Art."
"In the divine talent of the Creator the word got born and we, by studying this creation attain clear messages of Divine Conscience, Divine Truth, Divine Beauty and Divine knowledge. In the creative imagination of the God, completeness works and provides beautiful lines colors forms to the Truth of God. We realize the 'beautiful' through the sensing of Truth and where there is no Truth there isn't beauty. Keats has said that, 'Truth is beauty and beauty is Truth". This Self-Displaying form of God becomes such known in Artistic creativity that truth becoming beautiful descends to the outer forms of the senses."
"Even Truth is of many types, like – Imaginative Truth, Practical Truth and Philosophical Truth. That which is in three times, that is called Truth and God itself is the first and the last truth. But in practical life, truth takes many forms and as the practical truth I understand the sensible world's hard comprehensible truth. The one attained by the research of intellect, I call philosophical truth and imaginative that which illustrates through the subtle pictures of the mind. To say the stone is hard is practical truth, saying that adding up one and one the result will be two and through the existence of creation there is truth I call philosophical truth; and saying things like seeing Sarasvati talked with her, I understand as being the imaginative truth. For me, practicality is limited; philosophy, intellect is blind; I enjoy imaginative truth the most and through it find the glimpses of God"
"I think human arts depend on the imaginative truths. The straight forward illustration of practicality cannot take the form of Art, not is photography any Art in my opinion."
"The works done by mathematical formulas, even though are the works of brain, do not deserve to be called Art. Painting is Art, Photography is not."
"When the creative imagination sees new dreams rising above from imitation and maneuvers its works in its own manner, there Art springs."
"The uprising of Art happens from the talents of the eternal conscience of man. The beasts don't have Art, neither do plants! But man, full of spiritual nature who can remember and know the information of World Artist, has been endowed with a energy to imitate a little of divine working."
"The energy to manufacture Art doesn't come merely from the superficial darshan (philosophy) of objects; nor from mere intellect and knowledge; but it comes from those subtle conscience, which finds emotional caressing from divine experience climbing above bestial eyes. The beast merely looks and remains satisfied, but man tries to touch the heart of everything. The superficial understandings do not satisfy him, in the world containing form-relation and conscience he cannot remain satisfied though philosophy. He tries to connect the things seen and experienced in his mind and outer nature with eternal and true and tries to touch them with the help of relation and support of chief reason."
"Science cannot satisfy his curiosity and Man searches for glimpses beyond the Sciences through the magic of emotional and imaginative world, where man feels self-satisfied as if he is near the truth."
"Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within."
"No matter how frequently you visit the realm of dreams, you will inevitably confront the unvarnished truth. However, our truth is so much bitter that not even the entirety of the world's sugar can sweeten it."
"Education is necessary, I know. But education without values is like a flower without fragrance. No matter how expensive or beautiful the vase, without the flower, it has no meaning. Similarly, education without values can make one literate but can’t make one strong and complete."
"When there is the moon, the night automatically becomes beautiful; there might be no need for extra light. Light must be saved for those moments when the night is dark, and the moon doesn't appear in the sky."
"Plain paths are not always straightforward. You might encounter uneven, sometimes steep, sometimes flat obstacles along the way. That's the nature of a path. Therefore, after reaching an easy path, the walking stick should not be discarded."
"I realized that while women may seem like regular individuals, mothers are nothing short of divine embodiment. They transcend the ordinary, not only navigating life's challenges but also contending with the forces of nature in relentless devotion to their children."
"Light must be saved for those moments when the night is dark, when the moon doesn't appear in the sky."
"After reaching an easy path, the walking stick should not be discarded."
"After reaching an easy path, the walking stick should not be discarded, for there might come difficult paths again ahead."
"In your journey, be prepared to encounter an array of obstacles – some steep, some flat – for that's the nature of the path."
"Mothers not only navigate through life's challenges but also defy the forces of nature when it comes to protecting and caring for their children."
"The moon looks beautiful when it rises at night. Light must be collected for times when the night is dark, when the moon does not rise in the sky."
"No matter how satisfying the shade is, one must step out of it. Because if you keep staying in the shade like this, even your own shadow will abandon you."
"I can read and see the words that you have confined behind the wall of your lips in the expression on your face and in the gaze of your eyes."
"Even if the roof of a house leaks a lot, it still provides more shelter than a tree."
"If strong trust is not knotted in the foundation of love, a home that could shield its inhabitants could not be built. And life could not be lived wet, whether it be in rain or tears."
"If strong trust is not knotted in the foundation of love, a home that could shield its inhabitants could not be built."
"Life could not be lived wet, whether it be in rain or tears."
"The essence of love lies in feeling it. Love remains steadfast through sorrow and joy. Love is in preserving trust rather than just having it. Love is in winning hearts through genuine care, not through threats or pressure."
"I do not yearn for the cloud for I am not the rain. I am the sheer cloud itself, without whose presence there is no existence of rain."
"Sometimes, to do wrong deeds, one's intentions don't have to be bad; unfavorable timing and circumstances might lead one to do so."
"A man who only becomes a husband brings pain to his parents, and a person who only becomes a son brings pain to his wife."
"In deep relationships, there must be seven colors: First, trust. Second, dignity and comfort. Third, equality and freedom. Fourth, love and belief. Fifth, recognition and affection. Sixth, concern and pain. And seventh—soul and body."
"An overflowing pot must be emptied before anything new can be added. If you cling to the sorrows of the past, how can you make space for the happiness and joy of the present?"
"A rainy season can keep the earth moist for a while, but it must keep raining to nourish it. Men probably don’t understand this. That’s why they want us women to keep living in the same season of rain without realizing it will only dampen us and never let us flourish."
"How can those who incinerate with jealousy at the sight of someone else's external glitter not realize that not everything that shines is a diamond? Only the person wearing new shoes can truly experience the pain; for others, captivating is the allure of new shoes."
"One cannot spend their entire life sitting under the open sky just because their house has fallen; shelter must be sought! This is the truth and the right thing to do."
"To reside in someone's memory, one must set aside selfishness, as selfishness and fond memories cannot coexist in the same space."
"Sometimes a broken relationship will always remain distant, even when you try your hardest to bring it close."
"If a relationship lacks harmony, even the words that reach the tip of the tongue, unable to be spoken, retreat back into the heart and settle into knots."
"Perhaps, cold relationships cannot be warmed even by the warmth of the heart. Or maybe, the relationships of people we don't like remain obscured, even though they are right before our eyes."
"There is a vast difference between losing a battle after a hard-fought struggle and surrendering without lifting a weapon. If you are defeated while fighting a well-matched adversary, you are a warrior; but if you bow your head without ever raising it, you are a coward."
"A daughter who respects you while you’re alive is far better than a son who performs the rites and rituals after you’re gone."
"Even if you’re planning to get me married, that will also cost money! Just help me start my studies; I won’t be a burden on you."
"Before becoming someone’s wife, I need to be a daughter first. I owe it to the one who gave me birth and life."
"Amidst the shadows of adversity, a heart burdened and broken finds its steps faltering. Yet, it is in the act of rising, of daring to tread once more, that the flicker of confidence reignites."
"Life doesn't end just because someone leaves."
"The absence of lost things is felt most painfully when the things you possess stop providing satisfaction."
"One who intends to understand grasps even the slightest hint, but the one who has no intention to understand never comprehends, no matter how loudly you shout."
"The home is not always ruined by outsiders; sometimes those within the family ruin it even more severely."
"When you're comfortable within yourself, you don't care about others' problems or the challenges they face in life. However, when you're in distress, the memories of those you've abandoned leaving in dire situations, come back to haunt you. How selfish humans are!"
"When you stop respecting yourself, the world starts disrespecting you."
"I don't know why, those tear-filled eyes felt very familiar to me."
"Meeting you like this after so many years, I felt as if my heart had returned with me."
"I knew he loved me."
"She had become such an integral part of my life that, without her light, presence, and solace, I would feel incomplete."
"Your arrogance in your manhood prevents you from understanding."
"When a son takes care of his parents, no questions arise, but why is it questioned when a daughter does the same?""
"You've earned enough and given him to spend, so why would he bother lifting a finger?"
"Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed."
"Even if you choose not to marry me, the respect I hold for you will not lessen by even a single drop."
"My heart didn't want to believe it, but the truth was right in front of me."
"From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?""
"Life cannot move forward just by being drenched in emotions."
"This time, she silenced me not by speaking, but by pressing her lips against my mouth."
"I spent the years of my life as a stone, and then I longed to live the rest of my life with her, as a human."
"Those tied by a rope may squirm; they may try to break free and run away, but those tied by emotions go nowhere, even if they are left completely free."
"One feels weak only when they believe someone will offer support."
"Actions done against the will of the heart never bring good to anyone. Refusing may bring pain for a while, just for a moment, but agreeing to something merely to please someone aches forever and hurts everyone.""
"Those who can bend need not be taught how to stand tall."
"I hope not to encounter such a person again on my path who is interested in everything about me except my true self."
"I quietly hung up the phone. There was no point in me protesting."
"By dreaming of his company, I could forget my worries and pain."
"The pain shown by others and later understood doesn’t hurt as deeply as the pain one feels firsthand and then witnesses."
"One who has fallen and been badly injured won't regain the confidence to walk again until they get back up and try."
"A home isn't always destroyed by outsiders; sometimes family members cause even greater damage."
"How vast, how extensive the boundary of your company the magnificence of your affection."
"Expressing not to you; but with you, I've bound my love unseen from anywhere."
"May I meet you someday like this may there be no rush of saying goodbye may there be no fear of interruptions may all the emotions be poured out, and every nook and cranny of my heart be emptied. may I hold no regrets within may memories not haunt us later."
"May I grasp you and drift into a deep slumber may there be no haste to wake up may there be no fear of missing a moment may I get melted on your embrace, and meld into your wholeness."
"May I never tire of expressing myself may I find contentment in listening to you may there be no constraints of time and may we be bound together as a single knot you, time, and I."
"May I get melted on your embrace, and meld into your wholeness."
"May there be no unfulfilled dreams like this may there be realities that satisfy me."
"Hidden are the faces around me, like words tucked within quotation marks."
"Behind masks of smiles, some faces have buried their pain, while others have hidden almost their entirety."
"Every face is hidden behind some mask or another yet still, they are deciphered just as phrases are understood from within quotation marks."
"I know it's almost beyond possibility for your essence to be enveloped within mine. Yet, the heart, after all, is a heart."
"My life is devoted to pulling me underground yet, I stand strong on my battleground determined I am not to let my life defeat my pride."
"In this relentless clash, between me and my life both of us persist restlessly, trying to find the weakest moment in one another.”"
"At times, life chases me in haste, sometimes, I'm the one to chase my life. at times, life flees from my reach, and sometimes I try to escape from the grasp of my life."
"The rain drenches not my heart spring ignites not my desires and in the name of love these days no longer any furor does stir within."
"Your memory alone, once filled my heart with delight, but now, even in the presence of you my soul would not sense the thrill of living, but a deep apathy."
"When memories, of days gone by resurface; with reflection and reminiscence of my casual childishness, may your eyes moisten may your lips turn into a smile unveiled, yet concealed."
"I rushed to Mother clasped her in a tight embrace, and with resolute tones, proclaimed, 'Mother! I'll never make another home! I'll stay forever young! '"
"Whether you become a daughter, sister, lover, partner, sister-in-law, daughter-in-law, mother, or anything else with complete honesty, the satisfaction you'll find in becoming yourself cannot be found in becoming any of these relative beings"
"I have no need for the boundless sky; the moon and stars are beyond my grasp. I prefer to exist in the real world, for dreams alone cannot sustain me."
"Like, love; but do not make the person an indispensable part of your habits, routines, and daily affairs. It can be relatively easy to forget an individual, but breaking a habit is exceedingly difficult."
"Whether you want to break free or connect, it's your choice. But with great courage, I locked my eyes with yours."
"If you ever become fatigued from chasing your dreams, you are always welcome in my world of reality."
"Sanu Sharma is such a writer whose literary prowess extends beyond conventional storytelling, blending poetic elegance with profound social critique."
"Sanu Sharma’s writing is both poetic and socially provocative, with a distinct ability to craft multidimensional female characters navigating oppression, self-discovery, and resilience."
"Sanu Sharma’s initial poetic lines create an aesthetically powerful entrance to the novel, immersing readers in beauty and intensity."
"Biplavi by Sanu Sharma is not merely a feminist novel; it is a broader social critique that questions class disparities, patriarchal oppression, and the hypocrisy embedded in societal structures.”"
"By redefining the term ‘Biplavi’ through a female protagonist, Sharma challenges the traditional male-centered narrative of revolution, making the novel a bold literary intervention.”"
"The strength of Sanu Sharma's novel Biplavi lies in its courageous exploration of women’s struggles, not as isolated incidents, but as deeply embedded systemic issues that shape their existence."
"Despite dealing with complex themes, Sanu Sharma’s writing remains engaging and accessible, balancing depth with readability through minimal symbolism and sharp satirical undertones."
"Presenting the subtle experiences of human emotions in an artistic way is a hallmark of Sanu Sharma's fiction."
"Free from the complexities of literary theories and experimentation, this novel Utsarga by Sanu Sharma is deeply emotional."
"Sanu Sharma has explored and unraveled the female psyche so deeply in her novel Utsarga that the reader becomes a witness to it."
"Primary strength of Sanu Sharma's novel Utsarga lies in its seamless storytelling that never loses the reader’s engagement."
"Sanu Sharma's novel Utsarga takes the reader on a journey through an entirely new path."
"Utsarga by Sanu Sharma is a timeless love story woven into a novel."
"Sanu Sharma is a prominent contemporary Nepali novelist known for her unique storytelling style, making her a favorite among readers."
"Sanu Sharma's writing typically explore hidden human realities, subtle emotions, and the introspection of the human mind."
"Sanu Sharma's novel Tee Saat Din employs a film-like storytelling style, making it visually engaging and fast-paced, appealing to younger audiences."
"Tee Saat Din by Sanu Sharma is a powerful novel for young readers, portraying their struggles and triumphs in a relatable and inspiring way."
"Through its balanced narrative, Pharak offers an insightful portrayal of characters struggling with their desires and actions, emphasizing that understanding one's true nature requires peeling away the layers of duality and hidden motives."
"Sanu Sharma masterfully weaves dramatic developments and logical sequences, creating a storyline that keeps readers engaged by resolving initial uncertainties through a deepening understanding of characters."
"Sanu Sharma is a significant voice in modern Nepali literature."
"The novel 'Pharak' by Sanu Sharma presents a unique perspective on dismantling traditional patriarchal structures, challenging societal norms, and advocating for women's identity and freedom."
"Sanu Sharma’s novel Pharak leaves a powerful impression with its elegant language and masterful use of aphoristic sentences.""