Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Gargi Bhattacharyya

Quote by Gargi Bhattacharyya

“Every doctrine of violence and machinery of reaction has relied on his frightening it is to contemplate the crushing of hope. Far safer to expel hope altogether. More sensible than the painful un-numbing of imagining other possibilities.”

Quote by Gargi Bhattacharyya

Book:We, The Heartbroken
Create image

Work

We, The Heartbroken

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Gargi Bhattacharyya

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Gargi Bhattacharyya. more

You May Also Like

“Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.”

LoveGodInspirationQuotesImaginationBeautyCreativeHonorDiversityRacismAppreciationContemptCreateSkin ColorConciousness
Book:From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
Create image

“I left you to make you understand my mystery. Do not believe others will die, not you. It is not for that I'm your friend. By laying myself on the pyre, I became divine. I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee, and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever, for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear, makes a man immortal.”

FearFearlessImmortalityMortalityHerculesHerakles
Book:fire from heaven
Create image

“A few weeks into our stay, I made a friend who wanted to improve his English as much as I wanted to improve my French. We met one day out in the crowd in front of Notre Dame. We walked to the Latin Quarter. We walked to a wine shop. Outside the wine shop there was seating. We sat and drank a bottle of red. We were served heaping piles of meats, bread, and cheese. Was this dinner? Did people do this? I had not even known how to imagine it. And more, was this all some elaborate ritual to get an angle on me? My friend paid. I thanked him. But when we left I made sure he walked out first. He wanted to show me one of those old buildings that seem to be around every corner in that city. And the entire time he was leading me, I was sure he was going to make a quick turn into an alley, where some dudes would be waiting to strip me of…what, exactly? But my new friend simply showed me the building, shook my hand, gave a fine bon soirée, and walked off into the wide open night. And watching him walk away, I felt that I had missed part of the experience because of my eyes, because my eyes were made in Baltimore, because my eyes were blindfolded by fear.”

FearAuthenticityHumanity And SocietyBlackness
Book:Between the World and Me
Create image

“I have found myself leaning heavily on this pain. At first I tried to silence it, thinking it would go and leave me to my agitated content. That it would linger for a season, a firm reminder of the disquiet that lurks and coils below the surface of the stubbornly self-gratifying vision of our lives. Far from going, it became more clear, more precisely located, concrete, an object that occupied space within me, cockroachy, dark and intimate, emitting thick, stinking fumes that reeked of loneliness and terror. When I woke up in the morning, I groped for it, then sighed with plunging recognition as I felt it stirring inside me, alive and well.”

PainFearLonelinessTerrorIsolationBelongingExileOut Of PlaceRefugee Experience
Book:Admiring Silence
Create image