Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Tayeb Salih

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih.

Last updated on November 18, 2024.

Tayeb Salih was a Sudanese writer, cultural journalist for the BBC Arabic programme as well as for Arabic journals, and a staff member of UNESCO. He is best known for his novel Season of Migration to the North, considered to be one of the most important novels in Arabic literature. His novels and short stories have been translated into English and more than a dozen other languages.

Sudanese - Writer | July 12, 1929 - February 18, 2009

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I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.

Tayeb Salih

Everyone starts at the beginning of the road, and the world is in an endless state of childhood.

Tayeb Salih

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life.

Tayeb Salih

I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand.

Tayeb Salih

I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.

Tayeb Salih