Quote

Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice lifted in song.

Salman Rushdie

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Bombay
Rushdie
Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
Art
Birth
Mysteries
Human
Mystery
Unseen
Humans
Baby
Contemplation
Great
Hold
Aging
Love
Five
Disaster
Voice
Presence
Song
Hearing
Death
Keys
Lifted

More quotes by Salman Rushdie

Image
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Is birth always a fall?
Salman Rushdie
Image
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.
Salman Rushdie
Image
I didn't become a writer to write about me.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
Salman Rushdie
Image
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
Salman Rushdie
Image
YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Human beings do not perceive things whole we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.
Salman Rushdie
Image
The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the award, the freedom rate is very high: a very high percentage of people who receive those awards are freed in the next six months to a year. The only weapon there is attention, but interestingly it works.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.
Salman Rushdie
Image
People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Salman Rushdie
Image
You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
Salman Rushdie
Image
You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.
Salman Rushdie
Image
There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.
Salman Rushdie
Image
No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.
Salman Rushdie
Image
So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while I was studying it was where I came across the so-called incident of the satanic verses.
Salman Rushdie
Image
We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
Salman Rushdie