السراب
A source page for quotes linked to Naguib Mahfouz.
“...love is like health. It is taken lightly when present and cherished when it departs.”
“An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune.”
“Silence is the last try to tell them everything they didn’t understand when we were speaking”
“Thought is a double-edged blessing”
“Take your fill, for you will not see again that which you are leaving. Every moment is the last.”
“There is no reality in the world except for change.”
“لا يفرق بين رجل و رجل إلا إمرأة”
“القراءة في مصر ملهاة رخيصة ولن تتطور حتى تؤمن بأن القراءة ضرورة حيوية”
“ليس أشقى من أن يقرعك الندم و أنت ذو إيمان”
“لا تبن آمالك في الحياة على موت إنسان”
“الإيمان الحق نفيض السعادة التافهة”
“وليس أشق على النفس من تغيير عادة”
“في المجتمع المختل يبدو الصحيح مريضا والمريض صحيحا”
“La vista y el oído pueden engañar, pero el corazón nunca miente”
“الأخطاء ترتكب بعدد تردد الأنفاس”
“I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.”
“Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.”
“Only the poor are handicapped by honor.”
“If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?”
“Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.”
“I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.”