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Top 15 Vivek Shanbhag Quotes (2025 Update)

Vivek Shanbhag Quote: “Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.”

1. “Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

Vivek Shanbhag Quote: “I believe the essence of translation lies in taking what is unsaid in a work from one language to another. Words have memories, a history of their own. There are no two words with exactly the same meaning. To recreate the unspoken in another language, one needs to understand what went into making the original; then one must dismantle it and rebuild it in the other language.”

2. “I believe the essence of translation lies in taking what is unsaid in a work from one language to another. Words have memories, a history of their own. There are no two words with exactly the same meaning. To recreate the unspoken in another language, one needs to understand what went into making the original; then one must dismantle it and rebuild it in the other language.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

Vivek Shanbhag Quote: “Ours is a joint family. We live in the same house – my wife and I, my parents, my uncle and Malati. Malati is my older sister, back home now after having left her husband. It is natural to wonder, I suppose, why the six of us should want to live together. What can I say – it is one of the strengths of families to pretend that they desire what is unavoidable.”

3. “Ours is a joint family. We live in the same house – my wife and I, my parents, my uncle and Malati. Malati is my older sister, back home now after having left her husband. It is natural to wonder, I suppose, why the six of us should want to live together. What can I say – it is one of the strengths of families to pretend that they desire what is unavoidable.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

Vivek Shanbhag Quote: “The well-being of any household rests on selective acts of blindness and deafness.”

4. “The well-being of any household rests on selective acts of blindness and deafness.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

Vivek Shanbhag Quote: “When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.”

5. “When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.”

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Vivek Shanbhag Quote: “Appa enjoys our current prosperity with considerable hesitation, as if it were undeserved. He’s given to quoting a proverb that says wealth shouldn’t strike suddenly like a visitation, but instead grow gradually like a tree.”

6. “Appa enjoys our current prosperity with considerable hesitation, as if it were undeserved. He’s given to quoting a proverb that says wealth shouldn’t strike suddenly like a visitation, but instead grow gradually like a tree.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

Vivek Shanbhag Quote: “Words after all are nothing by themselves.”

7. “Words after all are nothing by themselves.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

Vivek Shanbhag Quote: “Cakes as good as the coins they cost.”

8. “Cakes as good as the coins they cost.”

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Vivek Shanbhag Quote: “On that day I became convinced that it is the words of women that deeply wound other women.”

9. “On that day I became convinced that it is the words of women that deeply wound other women.”

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Vivek Shanbhag Quote: “If we wanted new clothes, we knew exactly how much he could spare and what cuts would have to be made elsewhere. The result was that we simply did not desire what we couldn’t afford. When you have no choice, you have no discontent, either.”

10. “If we wanted new clothes, we knew exactly how much he could spare and what cuts would have to be made elsewhere. The result was that we simply did not desire what we couldn’t afford. When you have no choice, you have no discontent, either.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

Vivek Shanbhag Quote: “Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.”

11. “Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

Vivek Shanbhag Quote: “Amma and i went to each house to tell them we were leaving. They all said, ‘Don’t forget us. Keep visiting.’ At the age I was then, this seemed absurd. i had grown up among them – how was it even possible to forget these people? Now I see what they meant.”

12. “Amma and i went to each house to tell them we were leaving. They all said, ‘Don’t forget us. Keep visiting.’ At the age I was then, this seemed absurd. i had grown up among them – how was it even possible to forget these people? Now I see what they meant.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

Vivek Shanbhag Quote: “Sir, you may want to wash your hand. There’s blood on it.”

13. “Sir, you may want to wash your hand. There’s blood on it.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

Vivek Shanbhag Quote: “The result was that we simply did not desire what we couldn’t afford. When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.”

14. “The result was that we simply did not desire what we couldn’t afford. When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

Vivek Shanbhag Quote: “Now, unlike rats and cats, ants don’t make things fall in the night and wake people up. I can only imagine the clamour they must have created in her mind.”

15. “Now, unlike rats and cats, ants don’t make things fall in the night and wake people up. I can only imagine the clamour they must have created in her mind.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

Vivek Shanbhag Quote: “We were thrown off balance by her love for one of us, and so we tore into her with such vengeance that she collapsed to the ground, sobbing.”

16. “We were thrown off balance by her love for one of us, and so we tore into her with such vengeance that she collapsed to the ground, sobbing.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

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