Top 100 Hafez's Quotes

#1. The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar.

Robert Fisk

Hafez's Quotes #818700
#2. I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let's just get out of this mess.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #837821
#3. Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #847231
#4. There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain, Others are far too deep for that.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #833418
#5. We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul's life, Love is simply creation's greatest joy.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #827360
#6. I caught the happy virus last night
When I was out singing beneath the stars.
It is remarkably contagious -
So kiss me.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #826685
#7. You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #813158
#8. The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this ... and the Ocean does that.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #795131
#9. Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #744687
#10. On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #737686
#11. Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #734247
#12. Laugh because that is the purest sound.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #725433
#13. All your wounds from craving love
Exist because of heroic deeds.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #725220
#14. It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #724234
#15. Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #724227
#16. Not loving is a letting go.
Listen,
The terrain around here
Is
Far too
Dangerous
For
That.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #721561
#17. Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #715017
#18. In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #708053
#19. You see, Yousef, you can't force someone in their hearts to believe the way you do. They all tried and failed. They judged by their own convictions
not even by the truth of the teachings of Isa. No one is above God's judgment. No one has the right to judge for him.

Pola Muzyka

Hafez's Quotes #697658
#20. The tide of my love
Has risen so high let me flood
over
You.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #682219
#21. Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #629480
#22. I am happy even before I have a reason.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #628122
#23. Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #613168
#24. We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #612848
#25. When no one is looking,
I swallow deserts and clouds
and chew on mountains
knowing they are sweet bones!
When no one is looking
and I want to kiss God,
I just lift my own hand to my mouth.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #578643
#26. Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #577567
#27. Come in, my dearFrom that harsh worldThat has rained elements of stoneUpon your tender face.Every soulShould receive a toast from usFor bravery!

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #1019318
#28. Music is monophonic in the Eastern world, especially if we're talking about Indian music, Persian music. What we have in classical and Western world is harmony. So I think it's a great idea to be able to bring the best of two together and create something new.

Hafez Nazeri

Hafez's Quotes #1730836
#29. Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.

Hafez Al-Assad

Hafez's Quotes #1407834
#30. I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #1406981
#31. Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #1285051
#32. Run my dear,
From anything
That may not strengthen
Your precious budding wings.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #1133681
#33. 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.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #1123806
#34. Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #1123066
#35. Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #1111253
#36. How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #1108476
#37. People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #1034312
#38. My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.

Hafez Nazeri

Hafez's Quotes #1028129
#39. I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #1023493
#40. Your love
Should never be offered to the mouth of a
Stranger,
Only to someone
Who has the valor and daring
To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
Then weave them into a blanket
To protect you.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #572309
#41. When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #1016739
#42. You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say 'here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life'.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #1009195
#43. Pulling out the chair beneath your mind And watching you fall upon God What else is there for Hafiz to do that is any fun in this world!

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #992231
#44. I grew up in a family that my father was a very, very, a person with so many ideas, so many new visions and dreams. For me to grow up in that family, that also helped me to have a vision to create and open boundaries and things. So I think it's like, it just comes from the family.

Hafez Nazeri

Hafez's Quotes #977102
#45. Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #964653
#46. 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.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #946750
#47. A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #943839
#48. Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #902485
#49. Listen; this world is the lunatic's sphere ,
Don't always agree it's real,
Even with my feet upon it And the postman knowing my door
My address is somewhere else.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #872020
#50. Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #866673
#51. There is an ocean of endless opportunities, and there are so many things that one can do. I'm so fortunate that I've grown up with this sort of a philosophy and mentality.

Hafez Nazeri

Hafez's Quotes #850727
#52. Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light ... And let it breathe.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #162084
#53. God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #277053
#54. We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #260969
#55. Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #257959
#56. How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #257144
#57. I should not make any promises right now,
But I know if you
Pray
Somewhere in this world -
Something good will happen.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #254954
#58. Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #251339
#59. Think of suffering as being washed.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #240009
#60. We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning.

Hafez Ibrahim

Hafez's Quotes #210764
#61. Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #177155
#62. There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #175998
#63. Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #171422
#64. The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, It fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #165446
#65. The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #280470
#66. Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #135482
#67. God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, "You're it. I mean you're really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen."

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #107228
#68. For I have learned that every heart will get
What it prays for
Most.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #87568
#69. Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #85691
#70. How
Did the rose
Ever open its heart
And give to this world
All its
Beauty?
It felt the encouragement of light
Against its Being.
Otherwise,
We all remain
Too
Frightened

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #66845
#71. He was so slim, his heart was visible

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #55023
#72. If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #53760
#73. I'm Iranian and no matter what I do, I'm dealing with politics because especially my music, that it's a music that talks about peace, love, unity.

Hafez Nazeri

Hafez's Quotes #39287
#74. Since I've grown up I really wanted to be able to create something different. In Persian music, opposite, again, to classical music, that the instrument developed and evolved over, like, hundreds of years, our instrument all remained the same.

Hafez Nazeri

Hafez's Quotes #18412
#75. Let's get loose with Compassion. Let's drown in the delicious ambience of Love.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #13832
#76. Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #7722
#77. Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #425226
#78. I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #559710
#79. I am in love with every church
And mosque
And temple
And any kind of shrine
Because I know it is there
That people say the different names
Of the One God.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #549409
#80. What we speak becomes the house we live in.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #543322
#81. We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #535303
#82. You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, my sweet, O my sweet, crushed angel.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #505203
#83. The sun will stand as your best man
And whistle
When you have found the courage
To marry forgiveness
When you have found the courage
to marry
Love.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #481204
#84. When you educate a woman, you create a nation.

Hafez Ibrahim

Hafez's Quotes #458205
#85. There is
A madman inside of you
Who is always running for office

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #457075
#86. Your life within God's arms, Your dance within God's arms, Is already Perfect!

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #450466
#87. The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #434881
#88. Light will someday split you open

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #428921
#89. There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #566249
#90. 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.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #395119
#91. I know the way you can get / When you have not had a drink of Love: / Your face hardens, / Your sweet muscles cramp. / Children become concerned / About a strange look that appears in your eyes / Which even begins to worry your own mirror / And nose.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #380526
#92. The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #361619
#93. 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.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #353684
#94. The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #342766
#95. Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #330593
#96. Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #319900
#97. If at last thou attain the desire of thy life,
Cast the world aside, yea, abandon it!

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #310362
#98. It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #308398
#99. I rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #306534
#100. What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.

Hafez

Hafez's Quotes #290342

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