Bloodlines Quotes by Amin Maalouf

The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes…

— Amin Maalouf

Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.

— Amin Maalouf

“Can we reconcile indefinitely these two imperatives: the desire to preserve every individual's special identity and the need for Europeans to be able to…

— Amin Maalouf

“A community begins to fall apart the moment it agrees to abandon the weakest of its members.”

— Amin Maalouf

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We…

— Amin Maalouf

life is not so long that one can grow tired of it

— Amin Maalouf

“Til gjengjeld er det store sjanser for at ethvert amerikansk valg heretter vil bli et verdensomspennende psykordrama.”

— Amin Maalouf

“Someone other than I might have used the word “roots”. It is not part of my vocabulary. I don’t like the word, and I…

— Amin Maalouf

“On les écouta, on compatit, on s'indigna, on promit, mais on ne bougea pas une lance”

— Amin Maalouf

“Clawing its way towards us, the ugliness of the world tore away our hiding-place.”

— Amin Maalouf

What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and…

— Amin Maalouf