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The Death of Vishnu QUOTES

The Death of Vishnu QUOTES

1 " What did religion do to people, to provoke such obstinancy, such hysteria - how did it push people to the stage of torturing themselves and killing each other? "

― Manil Suri , The Death of Vishnu

2 " What will happen to the flowers, now that you are gone? The earth that clings to the steps, the tulsi that begins to sprout. The colors that brighten the darkness of the stairs, the scents that perfume the air. Must I climb alone the petal-strewn trail of your descent? "

― Manil Suri , The Death of Vishnu

3 " Potom zamru svi zvuci, svjetla se zamrače, a njegove oči sklope, i njemu se učini kao da počinje neki film... "

― Manil Suri , The Death of Vishnu

4 " She had displayed a particular softness for religion, so he had tried to introduce her to the ideas, sometimes foreign, sometimes contradictory, that formed the essence of other faiths, to show her that these were all man-made inventions, and one could not be preferred over the other. "

― Manil Suri , The Death of Vishnu

5 " What, after all, did the word ‘faith’ connote, except a willing blindness to the lack of actual proof? "

― Manil Suri , The Death of Vishnu

6 " He lifted his head and let it thud several times to the floor. Maybe that would send Reason whimpering back into its cave. "

― Manil Suri , The Death of Vishnu

7 " She looked away at once, not wanting to acknowledge his expression. Instead, she fixed her gaze on the large steel vessels and earthenware pots rising from the red cloth covering the stand. She watched intently as each golgappa was created: the tap to make the hole in the top of the papdi, the scoops to fill it with chickpeas and chutney, the final immersion into the pot of tamarind water, the chaatwalla’s hand disappearing almost to the elbow. She had been determined to keep her attention thus occupied, but then her second golgappa developed a leak, and as she tilted her head to swallow the water spilt into the leaf, her vision got entangled in Ahmed’s smile again. She "

― Manil Suri , The Death of Vishnu

8 " was it they who were flawed, or was it he? "

― Manil Suri , The Death of Vishnu

9 " existence a temporary delusion—hadn "

― Manil Suri , The Death of Vishnu

10 " Lucky are those that have no choice but to go on this path, but don't tell me that you are not angry. "

― Manil Suri , The Death of Vishnu

11 " He had always assumed it was a flaw in people, a human failing, that created this need to believe in something beyond the ordinary. Religion existed to control society, to monitor those without the capacity to think things through for themselves, to provide promises and shimmering images in the sky, so that the urges of the masses could be calmed and regulated. What, after all, did the word ‘faith’ connote, except a willing blindness to the lack of actual proof? "

― Manil Suri , The Death of Vishnu