Gregory David Roberts Quotes about Hate

you can't kill love. you can't even kill it with hate. you can kill in-love, and loving, and even loveliness. you can kill them all, or numb them into dense, leaden regret, but you can't kill love itself. love is the

you can't kill love. you can't even kill it with hate. you can kill in-love, and loving, and even loveliness. you can kill them all, or numb them into dense, leaden regret, but you can't kill love itself. love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever. every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it's a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die.

Gregory David Roberts

Regret, Hate, Love You

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

Gregory David Roberts

Hate, Choices, Forgiving

Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.

Gregory David Roberts

Loyalty, Honesty, Hate

Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.483, St. Martin's Press

There's a truth deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. We're helpless, usually, in the face of it; and the cost of knowing it, like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any heart would willingly pay. It doesn't always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart, just as Prabhakar told it to me, just as I'm telling it to you now.

Gregory David Roberts

Clever, Hate, Heart

"Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

Gregory David Roberts

Hate, Fate, Men

Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.358, Macmillan

While I was chained to a wall and being tortured, I realized, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn't sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's all you've got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

Gregory David Roberts

Wall, Hate, Men

Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it’s impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love.

Gregory David Roberts

Hate, Heart, Fate

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

Gregory David Roberts

Hate, Real, Literature

Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.367, Macmillan

I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.

Gregory David Roberts

Hate, War, Mistake

Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.13, Hachette UK