Top 30 Nadeem Aslam Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.”

— Nadeem Aslam

2. “Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.”

— Nadeem Aslam

3. “Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can’t.”

— Nadeem Aslam

4. “Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.”

— Nadeem Aslam

5. “You have spent your whole life believing such untrue things. Don’t you know how alone you are, David? We are most alone when we are with the myths.”

— Nadeem Aslam

6. “Her mind is a haunted house.”

— Nadeem Aslam

7. “As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.”

— Nadeem Aslam

8. “God is just a name for our wonder.”

— Nadeem Aslam

9. “Nothing is an accident: it’s always someone’s fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day.”

— Nadeem Aslam

10. “When a coin is minted, the devil kisses it.”

— Nadeem Aslam

11. “Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.”

— Nadeem Aslam

12. “History is the third parent.”

— Nadeem Aslam

13. “There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.”

— Nadeem Aslam

14. “How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It’s like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.”

— Nadeem Aslam

15. “Shamas stands in the open door and watches the earth, the magnet that it is, pulling snowflakes out of the sky towards itself.”

— Nadeem Aslam

16. “Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another’s loneliness.”

— Nadeem Aslam

17. “On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step.”

— Nadeem Aslam

18. “This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.”

— Nadeem Aslam

19. “To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.”

— Nadeem Aslam

20. “There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.”

— Nadeem Aslam

21. “There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn’t want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.”

— Nadeem Aslam

22. “In some respects, grief for the lost and missing is worse than grief for the dead, and sometimes just for a fraction of a second its intensity makes her wish Mikal would cease to exist, so she wouldn’t have to wonder if she will ever see him again.”

— Nadeem Aslam

23. “Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone’s life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.”

— Nadeem Aslam

24. “Wolves exhibiting strange behaviour – caught in traps and thrashing about, injured by other creatures or by bullets, pups suffering from epilepsy – are attacked and killed by their pack members. But here everyone is human and must try to understand each other’s mystery. Each other’s pain.”

— Nadeem Aslam

25. “The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.”

— Nadeem Aslam

26. “He would drift through the house in search of the coolest spot to read through the long summer afternoons that had a touch of eternity to them, altering the arrangement of his limbs as much for comfort as for the fear that his undisturbed shadow would leave a stain on the wall.”

— Nadeem Aslam

27. “All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.”

— Nadeem Aslam

28. “The West wants unconditional love; failing that, unconditional surrender.”

— Nadeem Aslam

29. “All those who love know exactly the limit they’re prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.”

— Nadeem Aslam

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30. “She thought of the boy thrown into the cauldron of war, the girl beset by various bigotries, her life in danger, and saw how unjust it all was, her fury limitless for a few moments. And she felt a sense of shame, something akin to accusation from them towards her and her generation, for not having constructed a better world to welcome and contain their beauty, to house their spirit. –.”

— Nadeem Aslam

31. “Sometimes a man has to be great enough to know how insignificant he is.”

— Nadeem Aslam

32. “To have not succeeded in the world was required to be a source of shame for a person. And yet she suspected that failure in worldly terms was the condition of the majority people of the world. To have been rejected, to have lacked courage, to have tried but failed.”

— Nadeem Aslam