180 Quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

I want a world where men live free from fear and coercion.

Laugh till you’re exhausted.

Don’t go back over the past. Let it depart, never to return.

Run after truth until you’re breathless. Accept the pain involved in re-creating yourself afresh. These ideas will take a life to comprehend, a hard one interspersed with drunken moments.

Visit me once each year, for it’s wrong to abandon people forever.

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.

It is an indication of truth’s jealousy that it has not made for anyone a path to it, and that it has not deprived anyone of the hope of attaining it, and it has left people running in the deserts of perplexity and drowning in the seas of doubt; and he who thinks he has attained it, it dissociates itself from, and he who thinks he has dissociated himself from it has lost his way.

Patience in the face of the bitterness of misfortune is the door to the sweetness of intimate discourse.

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don’t forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.