100 Quotes by Amin Maalouf

Some women’s arms are places of exile; others are a native land.

I am the son of the road, my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return.

Merasa diperlakukan tidak adil kadang bisa menimbulkan luka, tetapi kadang juga bisa menyembuhkan luka, dan bahkan kadang juga bisa membunuh orang yang merasakannya. Tetapi bagi wanita, perasaan itu lebih sering menjadi alasan yang kuat untuk bertahan.

All violence here is born of fear.

What’s a year in comparison with eternity? what’s a day? an hour? a second? Such measures have meaning only for a heart that’s still beating.

If You punish with evil the evil I have done, tell, what is the difference between You and me?

I look at the world and my own life as if I were a stranger. I wish for nothing, except perhaps that time would stop.

Eger onundeki kapilar bir daha yuzune kapanacak olursa, hayatinin sona ermedigini dusun. Sona eren sey yalnizca hayatlarinin birincisidir ve digeri baslamak uzere sabirsizlanmaktadir. O zaman bir gemiye bin, seni bekleyen bir kent vardir.

Don’t be so timid! When you were a child, didn’t you speak out the truth that the oldest ones kept secret? Well, you were right then. You must find the time of innocence in yourself again, because that was also the time of courage.