Yasmina Khadra Quotes

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.

Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.

We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves

There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.

You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?

You're all the world to me. Whenever i can't see you... I die a little.

Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.

Culture is always about politics in the end.

If you haven’t lost your mind yet, that’s because you haven’t seen very much.

Amin, you’re not making sense to me. Things have always been this way, since the beginning of time. Some die so others can be saved. You don’t believe in the salvation of others?

Her eyes were springs from which ecstasy drew water.

Who dreams so much, forgets to live

Celui qui se relève de ses faux pas aura gagné l'estime des dieux. De toutes les couleurs qu'on lui en a fait voir, il construira un arc-en-ciel.