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Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 24

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Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing

Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.

Heart, Breathing, Earthquakes

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

Parenting, Yesterday, Bows And Arrows

'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Children'

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own mother who gave him birth should find him and enfold him, he would withdraw in caution and in fear.

Mother, Lonely, Brother

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?

Spring, Believe, Heart

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

Love, Inspirational, Laughter

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.24, Lulu.com

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

Suicide, Suicidal, Men

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate.

Blessing, Men, Hymns

"A Man From Lebanon: Nineteen Centuries Afterward". "Jesus, The Son of Man". Book by Khalil Gibran, 1928.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Love, Giving, Stubborn

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Heart, Sacrifice, Body

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

She danced the dance of flames and fire, and the dance of swords and spears; she danced the dance of stars and the dance of space, and then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind.

Dance, Stars, Flower

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Pain, Self, Sick

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com

Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us, and we shall stand in the sun with a will, And we shall be dangerous

Laughing, Storm, Together

Khalil Gibran (1918). “The Madman”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

Philosophy, Science, Technology

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Passion, Phoenix, Ashes

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?

Silence, Together, Would Be

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.

Wind, Clothes, Body

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

World, This World, Contempt

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

Inspirational, Wisdom, Doors

Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets

Regret, Children, Justification

But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.

Song, Hymns, Space

Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)

Love Is, Vision, Prophet

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.

Life, Moving, Half

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?

Love, Cutting, Hands

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.

Spiritual, Clothes, Beautiful Clothes

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.58, Lulu.com

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