Daoud Hari Quotes

“I know most people want others to have good lives, and, when they understand the situation, they will do what they can to steer the world back toward kindness. This is when human beings, I believe, are most admirable.”

“Maybe someone who dies at the age of a hundred doesn't feel anything more than the fear that grips us when we're six and it's nighttime and our mother comes in to turn out the light.”

“Mother, death, love -- everyone shares, unequally, those three poles of fascination.”

“Often, then, the stories came pouring out, and often they were set before us slowly and quietly like tea. These slow stories were told with understatement that made my eyes and voice fill as I translated; for when people seem to have no emotion remaining for such stories, your own heart must supply it.”

“If the world allows the people of Darfur to be removed forever from their land and their way of life, then genocide will happen elsewhere because it will be seen as something that works. It must not be allowed to work. The people of Darfur need to go home now. I write this for them, and for that day, ... and for those still living who might yet have beautiful lives on the earth.”

“What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?”

“إن المؤمن ليدرك بحسن الخلق درجة الصائم والقائم”

“If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy!”

“Finally... I'm here...”

“Imagination is the other end of Reality.”