Amin Maalouf Quotes

Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind

Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And vice versa is also true: silence cannot exist without creativity.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Life is so beautiful, but there are all these scary things you can't deny.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

Without the darkness, we can't really appreciate the light

If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.

We spend so much of our lives not feeling but doing, doing, doing, and movies remind us that we are human. That life is all the things we see, and yet there is beauty there. There's a celebration of life and all of its intricacies. Movies are magnificent.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.