Top 47 Quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

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

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

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.