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Quotes by Iranian Authors


"I grieve nothing. I take everything."

"The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam."

"Love is the most integral function of our lives. That is why LOVE is only one letter away from LIVE."

"I am so tired. I have grown old from being serious. I have grown ill from being serious. I want to laugh at myself. I want to forget myself. I am so tired."


"What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt."


"I do know that I don't want to wake him.We were up very late last night."

"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."

"The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots."

"The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world."


"Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights."

"But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan."

"I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is."

"Miss Rice talks very tough. We have gotten used to this nonsense. Miss Rice is a bit emotional about this, and we predicted that she would have a more emotional approach to this."

"Before you, nothing.Now you, and everything."

"When you get shy, you're simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself."


"I hope he doesn't know he just touched my leg.And nothing happened."

"I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use."

"We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear."

"To live with you is to live.To live without you is to die."

"I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you."

"If you can love one person, you can love everyone."

"And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own."

"There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan."


"We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure."

"The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves."

"We exist only to exist."

"I'm not here to grant you the extraordinary love you never had for yourself. I'm here, on my own accord, to love you. So that when you stare into my mirror eyes, you may see how extraordinary you are."

"Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world."


"The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights."
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