Quote

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

Vikram Seth

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Wrenched
Away
Able
Love
Life

More quotes by Vikram Seth

Image
I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
Vikram Seth
Image
It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
Vikram Seth
Image
All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above-- Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
Vikram Seth
Image
And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
Vikram Seth
Image
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
Vikram Seth
Image
It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
Vikram Seth
Image
I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
Vikram Seth
Image
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
Vikram Seth
Image
I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
Vikram Seth
Image
God save us from people who mean well.
Vikram Seth
Image
In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
Vikram Seth
Image
Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
Vikram Seth
Image
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
Vikram Seth
Image
And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
Vikram Seth
Image
Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
Vikram Seth
Image
I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
Vikram Seth
Image
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
Vikram Seth
Image
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
Vikram Seth
Image
I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
Vikram Seth
Image
My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?
Vikram Seth