Khalil Gibran Quotes

“Hearts united in pain and sorrow
will not be separated by joy and happiness.
Bonds that are woven in sadness
are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure.
Love that is washed by tears
will remain eternally pure and faithful.”
― Khalil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

“And your fragrance shall be my breath,
And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.”
― Khalil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon over the poems of Khalil Gibran. The 'vacuum' will be invaded instead by determined fundamentalists of every stripe who already know the truth by means of revelation and who actually seek real and serious power in the here and now. One thinks of the painstaking, cloud-dispelling labor of British scientists from Isaac Newton to Joseph Priestley to Charles Darwin to Ernest Rutherford to Alan Turing and Francis Crick, much of it built upon the shoulders of Galileo and Copernicus, only to see it casually slandered by a moral and intellectual weakling from the usurping House of Hanover. An awful embarrassment awaits the British if they do not declare for a republic based on verifiable laws and principles, both political and scientific.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
― kahlil gibran

“إنّ َقلبي ظمآن، وإنّي مع ذك لا أرضى لنفسي أن أرشفَ دماً رخيصاً لجنسٍ هزيل،
فالكأسُ ملوّثةٌ، وما فيها من خمرٍ مذاقهُ مرٌّ في فمي”
― جبران خليل جبران, أرباب الأرض

“..i spill into
the kind of silence
only Khalil Gibran would understand.”
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

“إن للطير شرفاً ليس للإنسان ، فالإنسان يعيش في ظلال شرائع وتقاليد ابتدعها لنفسه. أما الطيور فتحيا بحسب الناموس الكلي المطلق الذي يسير بالأرض حول الشمس”
― جبران خليل جبران, العواصف

“من لا يشاهد الملائكة والشياطين في محاسن الحياة ومكروهاتها يظل قلبه بعيداً عن المعرفة ونفسه فارغة من العواطف”
― جبران خليل جبران, The Broken Wings

“في الجامعة البشرية أضراس مسوسة وقد نخرتها العلة حتي بلغت عظم الفك ، غير ان الجامعة البشرية لا تستأصلها لترتاح من اوجاعها بل تكتفي بتمريضها وتنظيف خارجها وملء ثقوبها بالذهب اللماع.”
― جبران خليل جبران, العواصف

“I only speak to you in words of that which you yourselves know in thought.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you”
― Khalil Gibran

“If it were not for our conception of weights and measures we would stand in awe of the firefly as we do before the sun.”
― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind undo the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“How shall I go in peace and without sorrow? Nay, not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.

Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?

Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache.

It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“And from that day to this, the wise men of Ishana say one to another secretly, "Is it not known, and has it not been said from of old, that Ishana is ruled by an enemy?"
-Khalil Gibran”
― Khalil Gibran

“And from that day to this, the wise men of Ishana say one to another secretly, "Is it not known, and has it not been said from of old, that Ishana is ruled by an enemy?”
― Khalil Gibran

“How shall I go in peace and without sorrow? Nay, not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city. 8Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?

Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache.

It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Your soul is oftimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgement wage war against your passion and your appetite.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Would that I would be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Luka bekas patah hati mungkin memudar, tapi tak akan pernah hilang sepenuhnya. Biarkan ia menjadi gurumu.”
― Fiersa Besari