Rafik Schami Quotes & Sayings

Anyone can listen to an exciting story; but a good listener is like a determined gold prospector patiently digging through the mud to find a little nugget of the prized metal. — Rafik Schami

why do our enemies shape us more than our friends? — Rafik Schami

What horrifying torture this poor man must have endured. Out of a wise man they have made a miserable bundle of flesh and bones. — Rafik Schami

Poverty smothers our dreams even before we have finished dreaming them. — Rafik Schami

What you achieve, endures throughout time — Rafik Schami

And rumors, well, they're strange creatures with a will of their own: the more colorful they grow, the more their true origins fade. By — Rafik Schami

I ran out of the apartment in a rage. Mahmud followed me, and we walked home, not speaking. Shortly before we reached the door to the house, he grabbed hold of me. "You're my friend, even if you've hurt me," he said.
I embraced him and asked his forgiveness. — Rafik Schami

Writing is not the voice's shadow but the tracks of its steps. It is only thanks to writing that we can listen to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians even today, that we can hear their voices as full of life as if they had just spoken. My friend, only writing has the power to move a voice through time, and make it as immortal as the gods. — Rafik Schami