26 Of The Most Beautifully Profound And Insightful Quotes From Khaled Hosseini

26 Of The Most Beautifully Profound And Insightful Quotes From Khaled Hosseini

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Kirsten CorleyDecember 20, 2016

People say that eyes are windows to the soul. Never was that more true than with Ali, who could only reveal himself through his eyes.

— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Reveal Truth Eyes

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That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.

— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

Regret Good Person

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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

Trial Sorrow Reason God

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There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft... When you kill a man, you steal a life,’ Baba said. ‘You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?

— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Theft Fairness Stealing

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A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.

— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

destination Onboard

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And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Word Mean What You Say

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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

Heartless punishment

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I suspect the truth is we are waiting, all of us, against unsurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

Truth Waiting Odds

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It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Word Mean What You Say

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You can not stop you from being who you are.

— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Goodness Suffer

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Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.

— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

Obstacles Heroism

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You have to do it now. If you wait until morning, you'll lose heart.

— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

Regret Good Person

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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.

— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

Feel Teach Books Life Lessons

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It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

Fear Guide Truth

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There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break.

— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

loyal Love bond

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A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.

— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

Education Women

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Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

Waiting Hardships Punish

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It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.

— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

Courage Fear Loss

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And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

Love Wisdom Illusion Hope

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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.

— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

Fear Guide Truth

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For you, a thousand times over.

— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Love Loyalty Friends Friendship

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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

purpose Life Mind

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I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

Truth Waiting Odds

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