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.....

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing.....

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

An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune.

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.

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