Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person …

- Amin Maalouf

What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural tr…

- Amin Maalouf

let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that day is to have meaning; silence, that speech …

- Amin Maalouf

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrog…

- Amin Maalouf

Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.

- Amin Maalouf

I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.

- Amin Maalouf

How do I pray? I study a rose, I count the stars, I marvel at the beauty of creation and how perfectly ordered it is, at man, the most beautiful work…

- Amin Maalouf

I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them …

- Amin Maalouf

Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascri…

- Amin Maalouf