Quotes from Sadegh Hedayat

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

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

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 the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.

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 plots and brilliant writing!

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

Only death does not lie.

My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.