Life Quotes by Khaled Hosseini

Zindagi migzara (life goes on)

— Khaled Hosseini

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

— Khaled Hosseini

“There is only what you do and what you don’t do”

— Khaled Hosseini

After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

— Khaled Hosseini

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

— Khaled Hosseini

Life is a train, get on board.

— Khaled Hosseini

“Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“But the fact is, I looked at my life and realized I already had what people sought in marriage.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate her in death.”

— Khaled Hosseini

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

— Khaled Hosseini

“Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blured by. An indifferent life.”

— Khaled Hosseini

All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.

— Khaled Hosseini

“When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a…

— Khaled Hosseini

Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld…

— Khaled Hosseini

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily…

— Khaled Hosseini

I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the…

— Khaled Hosseini

After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your…

— Khaled Hosseini

“I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to…

— Khaled Hosseini

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to…

— Khaled Hosseini

By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of…

— Khaled Hosseini

“But Laila knew that her future was no match for her brothers' past. They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate…

— Khaled Hosseini

Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the…

— Khaled Hosseini

It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life,…

— Khaled Hosseini

I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still…

— Khaled Hosseini

“I had always pictured her living a tumultuous, wayward life, hard years of bad luck-fits and starts,collapse,regret-and ill advised, desperate love affairs.…

— Khaled Hosseini

“she had hang up knowing that for the rest of her life it would slam into her at random moments, the guilt,…

— Khaled Hosseini

I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted…

— Khaled Hosseini

It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Though there had been moments of beauty in it Mariam knew that life for most part had been unkind to her. But…

— Khaled Hosseini

“All my life, I [Pari] have lived like an aquarium fish in the safety of a glass tank, behind a barrier as…

— Khaled Hosseini

“For a time, I was quite literally at loss as to what to do with myself. For more than half a century…

— Khaled Hosseini

“It feels as though there is a gaping hole in the middle of everything. The decades of my mother's life here with…

— Khaled Hosseini

There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

— Khaled Hosseini

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

— Khaled Hosseini

All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.

— Khaled Hosseini

“Nothing like life, it questions with either no answers or messy ones.”

— Khaled Hosseini

Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).

— Khaled Hosseini

“Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she…

— Khaled Hosseini