1,015 Quotes by Khalil Gibran

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.

Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.

Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.

Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.

If a man loses a dear friend, he looks around and sees many friends come to console and comfort him. If a man loses his wealth, after a little thought he will realize that the delight that came from wealth will be restored by finding more. Thus he forgets his loss and is consoled. But if a man's heart is deprived of peace, where will he find it again, how will he replace it?

To know the pain of too much tenderness

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?