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Top 30 Amin Maalouf Quotes (2025 Update)

Amin Maalouf Quote: “What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself.”

1. “What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “La riqueza no se mide por las cosas que se poseen sino por aquellas de las que sabemos prescindir.”

3. “La riqueza no se mide por las cosas que se poseen sino por aquellas de las que sabemos prescindir.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “Some women’s arms are places of exile; others are a native land.”

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

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “But I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages.”

5. “But I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “Time has two faces, Khayyam said to himself. It has two dimensions, its length is measured by the rhythm of the sun but its depth by the rhythm of passion.”

6. “Time has two faces, Khayyam said to himself. It has two dimensions, its length is measured by the rhythm of the sun but its depth by the rhythm of passion.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “If You punish with evil the evil I have done, tell, what is the difference between You and me?”

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

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “We live in the age of the secret and of fear. You must have two faces. Show one to the crowd, and keep the other for yourself and your Creator. If you want to keep your eyes, your ears and your tongue, forget that you have them.”

8. “We live in the age of the secret and of fear. You must have two faces. Show one to the crowd, and keep the other for yourself and your Creator. If you want to keep your eyes, your ears and your tongue, forget that you have them.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “I no more believe in simplistic solutions than I do in simplistic identieties. The world is a complex machine that can’t be dismantled with a srewdriver. But that shouldn’t prevent us from observing, from trying to understand, from discussing, and sometimes suggesting a subject for reflection.”

9. “I no more believe in simplistic solutions than I do in simplistic identieties. The world is a complex machine that can’t be dismantled with a srewdriver. But that shouldn’t prevent us from observing, from trying to understand, from discussing, and sometimes suggesting a subject for reflection.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.”

10. “We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.”

11. “Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “Next to your beloved, Khayyam, how alone you are! Now that she is gone, you can take refuge in her.”

13. “Next to your beloved, Khayyam, how alone you are! Now that she is gone, you can take refuge in her.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “All violence here is born of fear.”

15. “All violence here is born of fear.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.”

17. “Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.”

18. “Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions. Then they discover that things are just the opposite: the power of these loudspeakers only amplifies the opinion prevalent at a certain time, to the point where it covers any other opinion.”

20. “People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions. Then they discover that things are just the opposite: the power of these loudspeakers only amplifies the opinion prevalent at a certain time, to the point where it covers any other opinion.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “Hatte ich nicht hinter der Legende die Wahrheit gesucht? Als ich den Kern der Wahrheit erreicht zu haben glaubte, da war er Legende.”

21. “Hatte ich nicht hinter der Legende die Wahrheit gesucht? Als ich den Kern der Wahrheit erreicht zu haben glaubte, da war er Legende.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “Why should we take the diversity of human cultures less seriously than the diversity of animal or plant species? Ought not our just desire to preserve our environment extend to the human environment itself? Our world would be a dreary place, both from the natural and from the cultural point of view, if the only surviving species were those we consider “useful,” together with a few we judge to be decorative or that have acquired symbolic value.”

22. “Why should we take the diversity of human cultures less seriously than the diversity of animal or plant species? Ought not our just desire to preserve our environment extend to the human environment itself? Our world would be a dreary place, both from the natural and from the cultural point of view, if the only surviving species were those we consider “useful,” together with a few we judge to be decorative or that have acquired symbolic value.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “Our ancestors are our children; we peer through a hole in the wall and watch them play in their rooms, and they can’t see us.”

23. “Our ancestors are our children; we peer through a hole in the wall and watch them play in their rooms, and they can’t see us.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “Virtue becomes unhealthy if it is not softened by some misdemeanors, and faith quickly becomes cruel if is not subdued by certain doubts.”

25. “Virtue becomes unhealthy if it is not softened by some misdemeanors, and faith quickly becomes cruel if is not subdued by certain doubts.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “The twentieth century will have taught us that no doctrine in itself is necessarily a liberating force: all of them may be perverted or take a wrong turning; all have blood on their hands – communism, liberalism, nationalism, each of the great religions, and even secularism. Nobody has a monopoly on humane values.”

26. “The twentieth century will have taught us that no doctrine in itself is necessarily a liberating force: all of them may be perverted or take a wrong turning; all have blood on their hands – communism, liberalism, nationalism, each of the great religions, and even secularism. Nobody has a monopoly on humane values.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “You could read a dozen large tomes on the history of Islam from its very beginnings and you still wouldn’t understand what is going on in Algeria. But read 30 pages on colonialism and decolonisation and then you’ll understand quite a lot.”

27. “You could read a dozen large tomes on the history of Islam from its very beginnings and you still wouldn’t understand what is going on in Algeria. But read 30 pages on colonialism and decolonisation and then you’ll understand quite a lot.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.”

28. “Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “What we need to do is enter sensibly into an age of liberty and peaceful diversity, casting aside the injustices of the past without replacing them by new ones or by other kinds of exclusion or intolerance, and recognising the right of everyone to include several linguistic allegiances within his own identity.”

29. “What we need to do is enter sensibly into an age of liberty and peaceful diversity, casting aside the injustices of the past without replacing them by new ones or by other kinds of exclusion or intolerance, and recognising the right of everyone to include several linguistic allegiances within his own identity.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.”

30. “Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.”

— Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf Quote: “In my prayers, I want to say: Lord, don’t be far from me, and also don’t come too close. Let me contemplate the stars on the texture of your cloth, but don’t unveil your face to me. Allow me to hear the rivers that you send running, but Lord! Lord! Don’t allow me hearing your voice.”

31. “In my prayers, I want to say: Lord, don’t be far from me, and also don’t come too close. Let me contemplate the stars on the texture of your cloth, but don’t unveil your face to me. Allow me to hear the rivers that you send running, but Lord! Lord! Don’t allow me hearing your voice.”

— Amin Maalouf

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