Time Quotes by Salman Rushdie

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

— Salman Rushdie

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.

— Salman Rushdie

Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.

— Salman Rushdie

It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.

— Salman Rushdie

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture…

— Salman Rushdie

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now…

— 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

“He was the child of a father who was not his father; but also the child of a time which damaged reality…

— Salman Rushdie

Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get…

— Salman Rushdie

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of…

— Salman Rushdie

“The future, even when it was only a question-shrouded glimmer, would not be eclipsed by the past; even when death moved towards…

— Salman Rushdie

The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

— Salman Rushdie

When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that…

— Salman Rushdie

“Her parents were killed in their private helicopter. An elite death but at the moment of dying we are all penniless. She…

— Salman Rushdie

“mingling with the remains of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves,…

— Salman Rushdie

“time, in my experience, has been as variable and inconstant as Bombay’s electric power supply. Just telephone the speaking clock if you…

— Salman Rushdie

There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing.…

— Salman Rushdie

“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment…

— Salman Rushdie

When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If…

— Salman Rushdie

“In these our degenerate times, men bent on nothing but vainglory and personal gain – hollow, bombastic men for whom nothing is…

— Salman Rushdie

“Also – for there had been more than a few migrants aboard, yes, quite a quantity of wives who had been grilled…

— Salman Rushdie

“I was born in the city of Bombay ... once upon a time. No, that won't do, there's no getting away from…

— Salman Rushdie

In our time, we have become too interested in the artist and his or her character and experience as a way of…

— Salman Rushdie

“In these our cowardly times, we deny the grandeur of the Universal, and assert and glorify our local Bigotries, and so we…

— Salman Rushdie

“Yes, they will trample me underfoot, the numbers marching one two three, four hundred million five hundred six, reducing me to specks…

— Salman Rushdie

“Time passes. Big men dwindle, small men grow. This man shrinks into old age, those men’s reach grows longer. They can stretch…

— Salman Rushdie

One of the problems of truth being censored for a really long time is that people lose the ability to intuit what…

— Salman Rushdie

Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens…

— Salman Rushdie

“Also, on account of the odd relationship between time and space, the people who do manage to time-jump sometimes space-jump at the…

— 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

“During his illness he had spent every minute of consciousness calling upon God, every second of every minute. Ya Allah whose servant…

— Salman Rushdie

If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

— Salman Rushdie

“Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there?...And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come?…

— Salman Rushdie

“Then a strange moment came, a moment of the kind that determines the fate of nations, because when a crowd loses its…

— Salman Rushdie

“In these our cowardly times, we deny the grandeur of the Universal, and assert and glorify our local Bigotries, and so we…

— Salman Rushdie

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they…

— Salman Rushdie

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but…

— Salman Rushdie

You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's…

— Salman Rushdie

“The world is not ideas, rich kid, the world is things. If you have things, you have time to dream, if you…

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Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the…

— Salman Rushdie