Salman Rushdie Quotes about Love

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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.

Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.

Salman Rushdie

Love, Fall, Eye

Salman Rushdie (2011). “The Moor's Last Sigh”, p.289, Random House

A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.

Salman Rushdie

Love, Dream, Believe

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

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Salman Rushdie

Love, Art, Mystical Experiences

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

Salman Rushdie Quotes about Love

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