Love Quotes by Salman Rushdie

Freedom to reject is the only freedom.

— Salman Rushdie

“Naught but love makes magic real.”

— Salman Rushdie

Home is the place where you feel happy.

— Salman Rushdie

Reality is a question of perspective;

— Salman Rushdie

[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.

— Salman Rushdie

With death comes honesty.

— Salman Rushdie

“Human beings who turn away from God lose love, and certainty,”

— Salman Rushdie

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.

— Salman Rushdie

My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.

— Salman Rushdie

The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

— Salman Rushdie

“Love is spring after winter. It comes to heal life’s wounds, inflicted by the unloving cold.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Proximity to calamity released the human capacity for love.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.”

— Salman Rushdie

She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.

— Salman Rushdie

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't…

— Salman Rushdie

“The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.”

— Salman Rushdie

One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.

— Salman Rushdie

A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need…

— Salman Rushdie

If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered…

— Salman Rushdie

“It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Between the self and the other, between the visionary and the psychopath, between the lover and his love, between the overworld and…

— Salman Rushdie

“This is how we are: we fall in love with each other’s strengths, but love deepens towards permanence when we fall in…

— Salman Rushdie

“Then she found him. - And maybe he'd invented her, too, a little bit, invented someone worth rushing out of one's old…

— Salman Rushdie

“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,…

— Salman Rushdie

Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. "The only people who can see the whole picture,"…

— Salman Rushdie

“She'd never shaken off the feeling of being damaged by her ignorance of Love, of what it might be like to be…

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“I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to…

— Salman Rushdie

“And blessed be the first sweet suffering that I felt in being conjoined with love and the bow and the shafts with…

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“He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he…

— Salman Rushdie

I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing…

— Salman Rushdie

Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that…

— Salman Rushdie

“It had been more than a year since the Joker’s conquest of America and we were all still in shock and going…

— Salman Rushdie

“Once upon a time there was a mother who, in order to become a mother, had agreed to change her name; who…

— Salman Rushdie

“Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think…

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“Get thee behind me, Satan. Seek not come between a lover and his love.”

— Salman Rushdie

I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

— Salman Rushdie

If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.

— Salman Rushdie

“The actor's life offers, on a daily basis, the simulacrum of love; a mask can be satisfied, or at least consoled, by…

— Salman Rushdie

“Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for eleven…

— Salman Rushdie

One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work.…

— Salman Rushdie