Quotes by Libyan Authors

There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible.

Hisham Matar

I am not going to leave this land, I will die as a martyr at the end … I shall remain, defiant. Muammar is leader of the revolution until the end of time.

Muammar Gaddafi

One's nature is like a mountain

Hisham Matar

I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

Hisham Matar

Can you become a man without becoming your father?

Hisham Matar

There has not been a day since his sudden and mysterious vanishing that I have not been searching for him, looking in the most unlikely places. Everything and everyone, existence itself, has become an evocation, a possibility for resemblance. Perhaps this is what is meant by that brief and now almost archaic word: elegy

Hisham Matar

Women are females and men are males. According to gynaecologists, women menstruate every month or so, while men, being male, do not menstruate or suffer during the monthly period. A women, being female, is naturally subject to monthly bleeding. When a women does not menstruate, she is pregnant. If she is pregnant, she becomes, due to pregnancy, less active for about a year.

Muammar Gaddafi

And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

Hisham Matar

And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

Hisham Matar