Brilliant Quote by Sadegh Hedayat

I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps…

— Sadegh Hedayat

“Life as it proceeds reveals, cooly and dispassionately, what lies behind the mask that each man wears. It would seem that everyone possesses several…

— Sadegh Hedayat

“A story is only an outlet for frustrated aspirations, for aspirations which the story-teller conceives in accordance with a limited stock of spiritual resources…

— Sadegh Hedayat

[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.

— Sadegh Hedayat

Only death does not lie.

— Sadegh Hedayat

“In the course of my life I have discovered that a fearful abyss lies between me and other people and have realized that my…

— Sadegh Hedayat

“We are the children of death and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life.”

— Sadegh Hedayat

“There are people whose death agonies begin at the age of twenty, while others die only at the very end, calmly and peacefully, like…

— Sadegh Hedayat

“The person that I had been existed no longer. If I had been able to conjure him up and speak to him he would…

— Sadegh Hedayat

I have finally learned that I must remain silent as much as possible. I must always keep my thoughts to myself.

— Sadegh Hedayat

If there was no death, everyone would wish for it.

— Sadegh Hedayat

“From the bottom of my heart I desired to surrender myself to the sleep of oblivion. If only oblivion were attainable, if it could…

— Sadegh Hedayat