"The Yacoubian Building" Quotes
A portrayal of Egyptian society through the interconnected lives of the residents of a downtown Cairo apartment building.
fiction | 256 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.
We must fight with all our strength so that the message of Islam will be delivered to every person in the world. It is a message of happiness and salvation from hell.
No one has the right to judge someone else’s life, because no one knows what that person has been through or what they have had to do to survive.
The most dangerous thing in the world is to be a poor man with nothing to lose.
It's not good to feel too happy or too sad. It’s best to be just plain. Then you don’t lose anything.
You have to be honest with yourself. You have to be really honest about what you want and what you are capable of.
The sort of man who is going to do good to you, or do you harm, is going to be yours in a hundred years.
The human body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
We're such a big family that we all have room to hate each other.
A woman has an extraordinary ability to turn a man into a fool.
