R K Narayan Inspirational Quotes (7)

Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.

This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down.

A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.

If someone should ask, how should an Opposition function? the best answer would be, in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments.

Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.

Life is about making right things and going on.

No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.