top of page

"Without literature my life would be miserable."

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Novelist

Life, Literature

39

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Without literature my life would be miserable."

Exlpore more Life quotes

"I don't want to finish reading the book."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Book, Finish, Reading, Desire

"I love books."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Books, Love, Reading, Pleasure

"I am bold as a lion."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Bold, Lion, Strength, Courage

"I am very grateful for all the opportunities life has given me."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Gratitude, Opportunities, Blessing

"Life is your greatest asset."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Asset, Value, Greatest

"Even if you cover the whole world with darkness, you can never stop the sun from rising."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Sun, Darkness, Rise

"My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, sharing and loving in order to feel the deepest joy of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Mission, Kindness, Compassion, Love

"Our life is a one way journey, we can never go back."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Journey, Time, One-way

"The spirit of life, the spirit of peace."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Inspirational, Happiness, Truth

"If have nothing but life, I have everything."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Everything, Survival, Gratitude

Explore more quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

"I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature."

Money, Literature, Nothing, Writing

"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."

"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."

Reading, Thought, Books

"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."

Peace, Work, Media

"Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free."

Constitution, Now, Opinions, Press

"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."

Society, Expression, Freedom, Right

"History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself."

History, Society, People, Ideas

"Insults are the business of the court."

Business, Court, Insults

"I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised."

Thought, Writer

"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."

Society, People, Eye, Heroes

bottom of page