Nick Bulanovv

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

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
Kirsten Corley
December 20, 2016
“For you, a thousand times over.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Love, Loyalty, Friends, Friendship
“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
Tagged: Reveal, Truth, Eyes
“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
Tagged: Theft, Fairness, Stealing
“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Word, Mean What You Say
“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
Tagged: Word, Mean What You Say
“A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: Goodness, Suffer
“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Tagged: hurt, Truth, Lie
“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
Tagged: hurt, Good, Evil
“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
Tagged: loyal, Love, bond
“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
Tagged: destination, Onboard
“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
Tagged: purpose, Life, Mind
“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
Tagged: Truth, Waiting, Odds
“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
Tagged: Fear, Guide, Truth
“All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Fear, Guide, Truth
“For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Courage, Fear, Loss
“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
Tagged: Love, Wisdom, Illusion, Hope
“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
Tagged: Waiting, Hardships, Punish
“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Education, Women
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Trial, Sorrow, Reason, God
“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
Tagged: Feel, Teach, Books, Life Lessons
“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
Tagged: Heartless, punishment
“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
Tagged: Obstacles, Heroism
“You can not stop you from being who you are.”
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tagged: Be yourself
“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
Tagged: Truth, Waiting, Odds
“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
Tagged: Regret, Good Person
“You have to do it now. If you wait until morning, you'll lose heart.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Regret, Good Person