Omar > Omar's Quotes

“Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with:

"In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets and mysteries of the art of short-story writing....
Under tons of earth he lies, still wondering who among the two is greater short-story writer: God or He.”
― Saadat Hasan Manto

“If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ?”
― saadat hasan manto

“If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.”
― Saadat Hasan Manto

“Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity.”
― Saadat Hasan Manto

“...and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.”
― Saadat Hasan Manto

“Two truths cannot contradict one another.”
― Averroès

“Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect”
― AverroEs, Decisive Treatise and Epistle Dedicatory

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez