Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto an…

- Saadat Hasan Manto

...and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.

- Saadat Hasan Manto

If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without …

- Saadat Hasan Manto

But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the be…

- Saadat Hasan Manto

I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack o…

- Saadat Hasan Manto

If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even …

- Saadat Hasan Manto

Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of preju…

- Saadat Hasan Manto

I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.

- Saadat Hasan Manto

If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth

- Saadat Hasan Manto