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Top 25 Saadat Hasan Manto Quotes (2025 Update)

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth.”

1. “If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon.”

2. “Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.”

3. “I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia’s icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There’s no difference.”

4. “But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia’s icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There’s no difference.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don’t even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that’s the job of dressmakers.”

5. “If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don’t even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that’s the job of dressmakers.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.”

6. “I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “War has brought inflation even to the graveyard.”

7. “War has brought inflation even to the graveyard.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “Engulfed by a sudden emptiness, she was reminded of a train which after discharging passengers at various stations, has finally come to rest, empty at a railway shed.”

8. “Engulfed by a sudden emptiness, she was reminded of a train which after discharging passengers at various stations, has finally come to rest, empty at a railway shed.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “We’ve been hearing this for some time now – Save India from this, save it from that. The fact is that India needs to be saved from the people who say it should be saved.”

9. “We’ve been hearing this for some time now – Save India from this, save it from that. The fact is that India needs to be saved from the people who say it should be saved.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “To tell you the truth, the world seemed full of sad people – those who slept on the uncovered stoops of shops as well as those who lived in high-rise mansions. The man who walks about on foot worries that he doesn’t have decent shoes to wear. The man who rides the automobile frets that he doesn’t have the latest model car. Every man’s complaint is valid in its own way. Every man’s wish is legitimate in its own right.”

10. “To tell you the truth, the world seemed full of sad people – those who slept on the uncovered stoops of shops as well as those who lived in high-rise mansions. The man who walks about on foot worries that he doesn’t have decent shoes to wear. The man who rides the automobile frets that he doesn’t have the latest model car. Every man’s complaint is valid in its own way. Every man’s wish is legitimate in its own right.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “The field that cannot feed even its tiller Burn down every stalk that stands on it.”

11. “The field that cannot feed even its tiller Burn down every stalk that stands on it.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “To those men who say that women from “good families” must come into the world of cinema, I have this question: What is it that you mean by “good?” A woman, who honestly puts her wares on display, and sells them without an intention to cheat, is such a woman not virtuous?”

12. “To those men who say that women from “good families” must come into the world of cinema, I have this question: What is it that you mean by “good?” A woman, who honestly puts her wares on display, and sells them without an intention to cheat, is such a woman not virtuous?”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “I thought that the Hindus and Muslims would busy themselves in this war and their blood, which did not mix in mosque and temple, would finally mingle in Bombay’s drains and gutters. I.”

13. “I thought that the Hindus and Muslims would busy themselves in this war and their blood, which did not mix in mosque and temple, would finally mingle in Bombay’s drains and gutters. I.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “Literature is a symptom of the state of a society.”

14. “Literature is a symptom of the state of a society.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “For me, remembrance of things past has always been a waste of time, and what’s the point of tears? I don’t know. I’ve always been focussed on today. Yesterday and tomorrow hold no interest for me. What had to happen, did, and what will happen, will.”

15. “For me, remembrance of things past has always been a waste of time, and what’s the point of tears? I don’t know. I’ve always been focussed on today. Yesterday and tomorrow hold no interest for me. What had to happen, did, and what will happen, will.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “God commands worship but doesn’t five it. After having spent a few moments with nothingness, he gave life to existence... but where is nothingness now? Like a mother it gave birth to existence and then died in childbirth.”

16. “God commands worship but doesn’t five it. After having spent a few moments with nothingness, he gave life to existence... but where is nothingness now? Like a mother it gave birth to existence and then died in childbirth.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “Manto had earlier been prosecuted in Lahore for obscenity, and one of the words alleged to have been obscene was, “breasts.”

17. “Manto had earlier been prosecuted in Lahore for obscenity, and one of the words alleged to have been obscene was, “breasts.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “He ate off dirty plates and was unfazed. His pillowcase was soiled and stank, but he never thought of changing it. Hamid thought long and hard, but he couldn’t understand him. He often asked, ‘Babuji, why aren’t you revolted by dirtiness?”

18. “He ate off dirty plates and was unfazed. His pillowcase was soiled and stank, but he never thought of changing it. Hamid thought long and hard, but he couldn’t understand him. He often asked, ‘Babuji, why aren’t you revolted by dirtiness?”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “She could crowd a thousand thoughts into her head, but it was, at that moment like a strainer – the more she tried to fill up every little corner, the more emptiness there was.”

19. “She could crowd a thousand thoughts into her head, but it was, at that moment like a strainer – the more she tried to fill up every little corner, the more emptiness there was.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “Writers rarely set out to be national writers. They need small, intimate worlds, full of details; the macro scale of countries, especially those as wide and various as India, cannot be their direct material.”

20. “Writers rarely set out to be national writers. They need small, intimate worlds, full of details; the macro scale of countries, especially those as wide and various as India, cannot be their direct material.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “Literature and film in my opinion are like saloons where bottles have no labels. I want to taste each one myself and figure out which is what. If I’m denied this by labelling, then my entertainment is considerably lessened.”

21. “Literature and film in my opinion are like saloons where bottles have no labels. I want to taste each one myself and figure out which is what. If I’m denied this by labelling, then my entertainment is considerably lessened.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “When Hamid dropped Lata off at her house at nine that night, he felt hollow. The touch of her soft body was sheared from him like bark from a tree, and he spent the entire night tossing and turning.”

22. “When Hamid dropped Lata off at her house at nine that night, he felt hollow. The touch of her soft body was sheared from him like bark from a tree, and he spent the entire night tossing and turning.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “His last years were beset with financial troubles; he drank heavily; he wrote to Chughtai on more than one occasion, pleading with her to find a way for him to come back to India. She was surprised to learn that far from large protests and signed declarations on his behalf, many in Pakistan felt he deserved to be punished. He died on January 18, 1955 in Lahore at the age of forty two.”

23. “His last years were beset with financial troubles; he drank heavily; he wrote to Chughtai on more than one occasion, pleading with her to find a way for him to come back to India. She was surprised to learn that far from large protests and signed declarations on his behalf, many in Pakistan felt he deserved to be punished. He died on January 18, 1955 in Lahore at the age of forty two.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “When we were enslaved, we could imagine freedom, but now that we are free, how will we imagine subjection?”

24. “When we were enslaved, we could imagine freedom, but now that we are free, how will we imagine subjection?”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “If there is a God, I implore him – for God’s sake destroy the laws of men, demolish their prisons and make your own prisons in the heavens. Punish them in your own courts, because if nothing else, you are at least, God.”

25. “If there is a God, I implore him – for God’s sake destroy the laws of men, demolish their prisons and make your own prisons in the heavens. Punish them in your own courts, because if nothing else, you are at least, God.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “If you are not familiar with the time period we are passing through, read my stories. If you cannot bear these stories, that means this is an unbearable time. The evils in me are those of this era.”

26. “If you are not familiar with the time period we are passing through, read my stories. If you cannot bear these stories, that means this is an unbearable time. The evils in me are those of this era.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “A little ahead was a shop burnt in the riots. A man now sat inside with two large slabs of ice on the floor. A thought came to me: ‘At last the poor shop has the chance to cool itself.”

27. “A little ahead was a shop burnt in the riots. A man now sat inside with two large slabs of ice on the floor. A thought came to me: ‘At last the poor shop has the chance to cool itself.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto Quote: “Today we are called new writers. The coming tomorrow, considering us old, will lock us in closets, but that does not mean we have lived in vain.”

28. “Today we are called new writers. The coming tomorrow, considering us old, will lock us in closets, but that does not mean we have lived in vain.”

— Saadat Hasan Manto

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