Naguib Mahfouz Quotes

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

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

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars...

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the d...

Oh...why has time changed us?

Beauty itself is a painful convulsion in the heart, an abundance of vitality in the soul, and a mad ...

I want a world where hearts are not deceived and do not deceive others.

At times people who are extremely sad become lighthearted for the most trivial reasons, merely to ob...

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

An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune.

No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for ...

It is an indication of truth's jealousy that it has not made for anyone a path to it, and that it ha...

Why don’t we keep track of the happy moments, so that afterward we will believe them? Is he the same...

There is no alternative to action, and that requires faith. The issue is how we are to mold for ours...