Naguib Mahfouz Quotes

There was a change in his heart too. He felt aversion and repulsion."

Kamal felt like a man suddenly finds himself beneath a streetcar, after feeling completely satisfied about his safety and security.'"

It's inconceivable that there should ever be an appropriate atmosphere for me to hear talk like this. You have no respect for Fahmy's memory.'"

Her anguish over the changes that had befallen her was considerable, although at first she had welcomed them as an expression of her grief. Then she had begun to wonder anxiously if she might not need her health to get through the remainder of her life."

We walked along a street lined with gardens; on both sides were extensive fields planted with crops, prickly pears, henna trees, and a few date palms.”

School’s not a punishment. It’s the factory that makes useful men out of boys. Don’t you want to be like your father and brothers?”

And while the lady would sometimes smile, she would often scowl and scold”

I did not believe there was really any good to be had in tearing me away from the intimacy of my home”

She was thoroughly amazed that this sin made him more amiable.”

She wanted to disguise her embarrassment with irony as usual, even if it was at her own expense.”

The days passed and brought with them many illnesses, for each one of which I was able, without too much trouble and at a cost I could afford, to find a cure, until I became afflicted with that illness for which no one possesses a remedy.”

Who is Zaabalawi?’ He had looked at me hesitantly as though doubting my ability to understand the answer. However, he had replied, ‘May his blessing descend upon you, he’s a true saint of God, a remover of worries and troubles. Were it not for him I would have died miserably—’”

Finally I became convinced that I had to find Sheikh Zaabalawi.

Why, you're capable of miracles,' he told himself. 'You'll get away all right'"

the death blocking his path, all the things that made Rauf's death an absolute necessity"