Lib Quotes
  • Authors
  • Topics
  • Lists
  • Pictures
  • Resources
  • More about Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh Quotes

4 Sourced Quotes

    • Source
    • Report...
To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it's just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

Amitav Ghosh
    • Source
    • Report...
I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must win, must inevitably defeat me, because it is not a presence at all.

Amitav Ghosh
    • Source
    • Report...
What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?

Amitav Ghosh
    • Source
    • Report...
How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?

Amitav Ghosh

Quote of the day

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.
Theodor Reik

Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh
Creative Commons

Born: July 11, 1956 (age 68)
Bio: Amitav Ghosh is an Indian American author best known for his work in English fiction.
Known for:
  1. Sea of Poppies (2008)
  2. The Glass Palace: A Novel (2000)
  3. River of Smoke (2011)
  4. The Shadow Lines (1988)
  5. Flood of Fire (2015)

WikipediaAmitav Ghosh on Wikipedia
WikisourceAmitav Ghosh works on Wikisource

Suggest an edit or a new quoteSuggest an edit or a new quote

Indian Novelist Quotes
Novelist Quotes
20th-century Novelist Quotes

Related Authors

Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth
Indian Poet

Anita Desai
Anita Desai
Indian Novelist

Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy
Indian Essayist

Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
British Essayist

Featured Authors

Margaret ThatcherGeorge OrwellLeon TrotskyPope FrancisThomas JeffersonC. S. LewisMarcel ProustTenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai LamaNikola TeslaRené DescartesNeil ArmstrongJ. R. R. Tolkien

Lists

Predictions that didn't happen

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Picture Quotes

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

Confucius

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Philip James Bailey

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Popular Topics

  • life
  • love
  • nature
  • time
  • god
  • power
  • human
  • mind
  • work
  • art
  • heart
  • thought
  • men
  • day
Lib Quotes

100% Sourced Quotes.

Our motto is: Don't quote it if you can't source it.

Contact us

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X (Twitter)
  • Pinterest

Recent

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Subscribe to our Newsletter:
Quote of the Day
JS and WordPress
Subscribe
to RSS Feeds
© 2017-2025 LibQuotes
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / About Us

Lib Quotes