Quotes from Yasmina Khadra

Cel ce lasa sa ii scape dragostea vietii sale va ajunge singur cu regretele sale si toate suspinele lumii nu ii pot aduce alinarea sufletului.

Banul n-o fi avand miros, dar, Doamne! ce bine miroase.

Dac? vrei s? faci din viaÅ£a ta o verig? a eternit??ii ÅŸi s? r?mâi lucid pân? în toiul delirului, iubeÅŸte… IubeÅŸte cu toate puterile tale, iubeÅŸte ca ÅŸi cum n-ai ÅŸti nimic altceva s? faci, iubeÅŸte într-atât încât s?-i faci geloÅŸi pe prinÅ£ese ÅŸi zei… pentru c? în dragoste toat? urâÅ£enia îÅŸi descoper? frumuseÅ£ea.

ViaÅ£a este un tren care nu se opreÅŸte în nicio gar?. Fie îl lu?m din mers, fie îl privim trecând de pe peron, ÅŸi nu e tragedie mai mare decât o gar? fantom?.

A lightning flash lit up the shadows. Rain was falling gently. The window panes themselves were weeping. Be careful, Younes, I thought, you're wallowing in self-pity. But what did that matter? This was what I saw: the windows crying. I wanted to see tears streak the window panes, I wanted to feel sorry for myself, I wanted to dissolve body and soul into my grief.

J'avais un compte à régler avec moi-même. On ne fuit jamais soi-même. Je pouvais prendre tous les train de la terre, tous les avions, tous les paquebots, je charrierais partout où j'irais cette chose indomptable qui sécrétais sa bile en moi.

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

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.

We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves

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 not everthing, but everything depends on her.

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

Celui qui passe à coté de la plus belle histoire de sa vie n'aura que l'âge de ses regrets et tous les soupirs du monde ne sauraient bercer son âme.

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.

Nous, les Arabes, ne sommes pas paresseux. Nous prenons seulement le temps de vivre. Ce qui n'est pas le cas des Occidentaux. Pour eux, le temps, c'est de l'argent. Pour nous, le temps ça n'a pas de prix. Un verre de thé suffit à notre bonheur, alors qu'aucun bonheur ne leur suffit. Toute la différence est là.

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 not everthing, but everything depends on her.

We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.

Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

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 it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.

We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves

On peut tout te prendre; tes biens, tes plus belles années, l'ensemble de tes joies, et l'ensemble de tes mérites, jusqu'à ta dernière chemise. Il te restera toujours tes rêves pour réinventer le monde que l'on t'a confisqué...

tout compte fait, je crois que mon tort était de ne pas avoir eu le courage de mes convictions. Je pouvais me trouver toutes les excuses du monde, aucune d'elles ne me donnerait raison. En réalité maintenant que j'avais perdu la face , je me cherchais un masque. Pareil à un défiguré, je me cachais derrière mes pansements qui me servaient aussi de moucharabiehs. Je regardais en cachette la vérité des autres, en abusais pour distancer la mienne

Les hommes ont inventé la guerre, la femme a inventé la résistance.

La vie est un apprentissage permanent ; plus on croit savoir, moins on sait, tant les choses changent et avec elles les mentalités.

Quand on ne trouve pas la solution à son malheur, on lui cherche un coupable.