Hafez Quotes

“One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.”

“Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”

“I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'”

“All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.”

“The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.”

“Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.”

“When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.”

“The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place.”

“Your loveShould never be offered to the mouth of aStranger,Only to someoneWho has the valor and daringTo cut pieces of their soul off with a knifeThen weave them into a blanketTo protect you.”

“This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.”

“The sun will stand as your best manAnd whistleWhen you have found the courageTo marry forgivenessWhen you have found the courageto marryLove.”

“How seamless seemed love and then came trouble!”

“Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure,But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.”

“Come in, my dearFrom that harsh worldThat has rained elements of stoneUpon your tender face.Every soulShould receive a toast from usFor bravery!”

“Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”

“Fear is the cheapest room in the house.”

“Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.”

“Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.”

“Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.”

“How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.”

“Plant a Seed so your Heart will Grow.”

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”

“Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.”

“Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job.”

“Whatis the root of all these words?One thing: Love.But a love so deep and sweet it needed to express itself with scents, sounds, colors that never before existed.”