Pakistani Author Quotes

Muhammad Iqbal

Mohsin Hamid

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

Kamila Shamsie

Ghani Khan

If you follow a religion but are devoid of the Love of God, then those that do not follow a religion but have the love of God are better.

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

For never has there been, in modern times, such a Homeric world, where so much value is pinned onto the utterance of name! Entire conversations, entire lives, are devoted to the act of naming people, and in Pakistan the affluent would be totally devoid of talk if they were unable to take names in vain. Caste and all its subclassifications are recreated every day in the structure of a conversation that knows which names to name...

Your heart beats 72 times a minute. Every time it beats, it does so with the permission of its Creator.

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need?

Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.

Death, go somewhere, get lost! I'm not done as yet –
Joy still flows from the amphora of colors into my cupped hands.

Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.