自深深处

仇恨，你还不知道呢，以心智论是永恒的否定，以感情论是萎缩退化的一种形式，它消灭一切，除了自己。

不能承受的生命之轻

如果我们生命的每一秒钟的无线重复，我们就会像耶稣被钉死在十字架上一样被钉死在永恒上

死神的精確度

你记得你出生前的事吗？出生之前，你觉得恐怖吗？感到痛苦吗？……所谓死亡，无非就是回到出生前的状态而已，既不恐怖，也不痛苦。

羞耻

The air there is full of unasked questions. But their smell is faint, and the flowers in the many maturing gardens, the trees lining the avenues, the perfumes worn by the beautiful soignee ladies of the neighbourhood quite overpower this other, too-abstract odour.You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail.Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.Shame: a short word, but one containing encyclopaedias of nuance. It was not only shame that his mothers forbade him to feel, but also embarrassment, discomfiture, decency, modesty, shyness, the sense of having an ordained place in the world, and other dialects of emotion for which English has no counterparts.