I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.

- Sadegh Hedayat

In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.

- Sadegh Hedayat

[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.

- Sadegh Hedayat

If there was no death, everyone would wish for it.

- Sadegh Hedayat

The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Y…

- Sadegh Hedayat

Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed p…

- Sadegh Hedayat

The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In th…

- Sadegh Hedayat

I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.

- Sadegh Hedayat

What relationship could exist between the lives of the fools and healthy rabble who were well, who slept well, who performed the sexual act well, who…

- Sadegh Hedayat