Ananta Madhavan Quotes

'All truths are partial and the last, the most.'

'Today is the Tomorrow of Yesterday And the Yesterday of Tomorrow'.

1. 'It is not we who catch up with age; It is old age that catches up with us', As the over-taker said to the undertaker. 2. 'Middle age is when you are old enough to to envy youth, but not too old to stop caring about the loss of youth.' 3. 'One consolation of middle age is to watch the parallel of ageing of contemporaries'.

A Zen Quibble. There is no point in this Zen story. That is the point.

'I am securely anchored to a grooved Orbit of days and seasons; I shall hold Fast to my functions, my place in the sun, Observer, object, subject, substitute For the vanishing void in the centre.'

'O Woe, we owe you overmuch That crippled Happiness should take you as its crutch'.

'Some of us predict the Past, imagine the Present, Historicise the Future too. But our dates are mythical, Our imaginings are private fictions, our predictions are irrelevant. Time that is measured is only is only a strip of a Perpetual Calendar, a fictional chronometer, a mood too subjective to serialise as the last Act in a play without an Epilogue.'

Arrest. We want to catch Time and wind it round a wrist and keep watching it. Time takes its revenge on us by watching us constantly.

Truly Singular. When you can count the hairs on your head rather than speak of your head of hair, you are truly balding. Everyone has plural selves, but each is truly singular.

'The world is a vast artifice, constantly under renovation. We are the architects of its demolition and the artisans of change in our imaginary nooks, crannies and private cubicles.'