147 Quotes by Vikram Seth

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

UnclaimedTo make love with a stranger is the best.There is no riddle and there is no test. –To lie and love, not aching to make senseOf this night in the mesh of reference.To touch, unclaimed by fear of imminent day,And understand, as only strangers may.To feel the beat of foreign heart to heartPreferring neither to prolong nor part.To rest within the unknown arms and knowThat this is all there is; that this is so.

VoicesVoices in my head,Chanting, 'Kisses. Bread.Prove yourself. Fight. Shove.Learn. Earn. Look for love',Drown a lesser voice,Silent now of choice:'Breathe in peace, and beStill, for once, like me'.

Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols, she felt a sense of wonder at the great territories of learning that lay beyond her - the sum of so many noble and purposive attempts to make objective sense of the world.

... each point in the universe must make up its own mind on the question of acknowledgement before acknowledgement can be considered universal.

My tea has overbrewed: it is bitter, but still drinkable. I turn on the television and return to the present. Four plump humanoid creatures, red, yellow, green and purple, are frolicking on a grassy hill. Rabbits nibble the grass. The creatures hug each other. A periscope emerges from a knoll and tells them they must say goodbye. After a little protest, they do, jumping one by one into a hole in the ground.

L'ottusità degli uomini intelligenti, pensò Savita con un sorriso, è la metà delle ragioni che li rendono amabili.

Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.

A volte penso che in tempi di profonda angoscia sia una consolazione sapere che il mondo, tutto sommato, se ne infischia.