Crossing the Mirage - Passing through Youth Quotes

“Aren’t parents but mere facilitators to perpetuate the species as per nature’s designs? It’s his ego that makes man imagine that, without him, his family would be orphaned. Is there anything more ironical than the falsity of that proposition!”
― B.S. Murthy, Crossing the Mirage - Passing through Youth

“While for man, the physicality of woman fuels his sexual love for her, it was the sexual fulfillment from man that feeds woman’s love for him.”
― B.S. Murthy, Crossing the Mirage - Passing through Youth

“At their core all cultures are cultureless.”
― B.S. Murthy, Crossing the Mirage - Passing through Youth

“Self-destruction seems to be an aberration peculiar to the human condition. Aren’t man’s miseries of his making, brought about by his own debilities? And yet, while lamenting over his shortcomings, he tends to blame it on life! But life seems to understand man more than he does it. Well, to preclude him from perishing in grief, life infuses in him hope for sustenance. Besides, by imparting an existential ethos in him to avert the cascade of tragedy--of human extinction--life seems to countervail itself to keep up its propagation.”
― B.S. Murthy, Crossing the Mirage - Passing through Youth

“Courage to die is all too different from that required to carry on living against odds." - Crossing the Mirage”
― B.S. Murthy, Crossing the Mirage - Passing through Youth

“Youth is the mirror that tends us to the reality of our looks. The reflections of our visages that insensibly get implanted in our subconscious lend shape to our psyche to define the course of our life.”
― B.S. Murthy, Crossing the Mirage - Passing through Youth

“The charm of life lies in living to be surprised”
― B.S. Murthy, Crossing the Mirage - Passing through Youth

“Small pleasures and little vices combine to make life happy.”
― B.S. Murthy, Crossing the Mirage - Passing through Youth

“Showiness has become the malady of our times; haven’t wedding cards come to resemble wall posters. None seems to mind that the card and the copy don’t jell at all; maybe, it’s all prognostic, who knows?”
― B.S. Murthy, Crossing the Mirage - Passing through Youth