Famous Hanif Kureishi Quotes

  • If there’s no sacrifice, there’s no love. – Hanif Kureishi

    If there’s no sacrifice, there’s no love.– Hanif Kureishi

  • Being in love means being at the mercy of someone’s childhood. – Hanif Kureishi

    Being in love means being at the mercy of someone’s childhood.– Hanif Kureishi

  • Old age is the new childhood. – Hanif Kureishi

    Old age is the new childhood.– Hanif Kureishi

  • Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job. – Hanif Kureishi

    Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.– Hanif Kureishi

  • I am dust and my story ends here. – Hanif Kureishi

    I am dust and my story ends here.– Hanif Kureishi

  • Women only wear beautiful clothes so that men will want to remove them. – Hanif Kureishi

    Women only wear beautiful clothes so that men will want to remove them.– Hanif Kureishi

  • He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative. – Hanif Kureishi

    He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative.– Hanif Kureishi

  • The past looks worse the closer you look at it. – Hanif Kureishi

    The past looks worse the closer you look at it.– Hanif Kureishi

  • Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed. – Hanif Kureishi

    Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.– Hanif Kureishi

  • I don’t like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self. – Hanif Kureishi

    I don’t like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.– Hanif Kureishi