Quotes by : Naguib Mahfouz

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

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

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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