Salman Rushdie Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.

  Salman Rushdie

  Air, Land, Sky

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

• As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.

  Salman Rushdie

  Wind, Soul, Skins

• I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Thinking, Soul

• Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Soul, Body

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.

  Salman Rushdie

  Pride, Soul, Islam

  "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Address at Columbia University, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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