I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though I was a different person, an infuriating, disappoint…

- Yasmina Khadra

Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable mor…

- Yasmina Khadra

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

- Yasmina Khadra

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 …

- Yasmina Khadra

Culture is always about politics in the end.

- Yasmina Khadra

If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though i…

- Yasmina Khadra

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

- Yasmina Khadra

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

- Yasmina Khadra

It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of the Pashtuns,…

- Yasmina Khadra