Whether they're novelists, poets or scholars, great writers have the ability to see through the human experience and express it in a way like no other.

Through their expression, they make us understand the nature of ourselves and the world around us, an ability that the Arab World's greatest writers certainly possessed.

From Lebanon's icons such as Khalil Gibran and Mikhail Na'ima to Syria's Nizar Qabbani and Egypt's Naguib Mahfouz, the Arab greats knew how to put their own unique perspectives into words and have them convey meanings that are universal.

These are 10 incredible quotes about the universal experience of love, from some of the greatest Arab writers of all time.