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Top 100 Naguib Mahfouz Quotes (2024 Update)

Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “If life has no meaning, why don’t we create a meaning for it?”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “Without literature my life would be miserable.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “You know what I’m afraid of? That God is sick of us.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “Madness is the acme of intelligence.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “It’s clearly more important to treat one’s fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one’s head to a prayer mat.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “Only the poor are handicapped by honor.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “The real malady is fear of life, not of death.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “Visit me once each year, for it’s wrong to abandon people forever.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “Events at home, at work, in the street – these are the bases for a story.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “Happy is he who can give himself up.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “It’s not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “Today’s interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “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.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “If we reject science, we reject the common man.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “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.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.”
Naguib Mahfouz Quote: “I defend both the freedom of expression and society’s right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.”
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