324 Quotes by Kahlil Gibran

The poets and writers are trying to understand the reality of woman, but up to this day they have not understood the hidden secret of her heart because they look upon her from behind the sexual veil and see nothing but the externals: they look upon her through a magnifying glass of hatefulness and find nothing except weakness and submission.

Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth.

هو الخوف جعل آباءكم يحشرونكم و أجدادكم يحشرونكم جماعات جماعاتو ذلك الخوف سيرافقكم بعد و لو لأجل قصيرو لأجل قصير ستبقى أسوار مدينتكم حاجزا ما بين مواقدكم و بين حقولكم

That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart.

Die Vernunft ist, wenn sie allein waltet, eine einengende Kraft; und unbewacht ist die Leidenschaft eine Flamme, die bis zur Selbstzerstörung brennt.

A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone.The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand.And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.In the bosom of such as these the spirit dwells in rhythmic silence.