180 Quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don’t forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

I consider Khomeini’s position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

A priest’s life is spent between question and answer – or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death.

If life has no meaning, why don’t we create a meaning for it?