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....

There is no alternative to action, and that requires faith. The issue is how we are to mold for ourselves....

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert.....

No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer

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....

Don't go back over the past. Let it depart, never to return.