138 Quotes by Rohinton Mistry

You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.' He paused, considering what he had just said. 'Yes', he repeated. 'In the end, it's all a question of balance.

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.

Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From theirs, it might be a line between mercy and cruelty, consideration and callousness.

Time had changed the magical to mundane

the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

...I always took the rearmost seat in the classroom - it gave me a good view of things. And I must confess, the location taught me more about human nature and justice than could be learned from the professors' lectures.

Depression is a red herring," said Nariman. "I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there is not much percentage in the future.