269 Quotes by Ruskin Bond

Death moves about at random, without discriminating between the innocent and the evil, the poor and the rich. The only difference is that the poor usually handle it better.

Puffed up with self-importance, we are in fact the most dispensable of all his creatures.

I knew I was free; that I had always been free; held back only by my own weakness, lacking impulse and the imagination to break away from an existence that had become habitual for years.

It’s safer in the jungle than in the town.

Typewriters and computers were not designed with steep mountain slopes in mind. On one occasion last autumn I did carry my typewriter into the garden, and I am still trying to extricate a couple of acorns from under the keys, while the roller seems permanently stained from some fine yellow pollen dust from the deodar trees. But armed with pencils and paper, I can lie on the grass and write for hours. Provided there are a couple of cheese-and-tomato sandwiches within easy reach.

It’s fine to dream, provided we can deal with the reality when we wake up.

No one rules the world forever, the gods grow jealous. If someone is constantly successful or too powerful – be it Alexander or Napolean or Hitler – the gods will eventually destroy him.

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.

That man is strongest who stands alone!