Naguib Mahfouz Life Quotations

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.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?

A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.