Death Quote by Salman Rushdie — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“How treacherous history is! Half-truths, ignorance, deceptions, false trails, errors, and lies, and buried somewhere in between all of that, the truth, in which it is easy to lose faith, of which it is consequently easy to say, it’s a chimera, there’s no such thing, everything is relative, one man’s absolute belief is another man’s fairy tale; but about which we insist, we insist most emphatically, that it is too important an idea to give up to the relativity merchants.”

“So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name.”

“Fury...sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal....drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths”

“‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.”

“How do you defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized.”

“What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?”

“Love in a hut, with water and a crust,”

“We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.”

“No, my dog used to gaze at me,”

“When the star dies,”

“What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.”

“This may not be much, but it is something. Tomorrow we die; but at least we danced in silver shoes.”