Hafez Quotes

A truce to your volumes, your studies, give o'er: for books cannot teach you love's marvelous lore.

Hafez

Good poetry makes the universe.. reveal her.. secret.

Hafiz of Persia

This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.

Hafiz of Persia

We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.

Hafiz of Persia

Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.

Hafiz of Persia

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

Hafiz of Persia

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

Hafiz of Persia (Quoted in I Heard God Laughing)

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

Hafiz of Persia

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I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

Hafiz of Persia (Quoted in I Heard God Laughing)

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

Hafiz of Persia

We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light! 

Hafiz of Persia

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.

Hafiz of Persia

Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature.

Hafiz of Persia

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For a day, just for one day, Talk about that which disturbs no one And bring some peace into your Beautiful eyes.

Hafiz of Persia

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.

Hafiz of Persia

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

Hafiz of Persia

The subject tonight is Love
And for tomorrow night as well,
As a matter of fact
I know of no better topic
For us to discuss
Until we all die! 

Hafiz of Persia

This is the kind of Friend
You are-
Without making me realize
My soul’s anguished history,
You slip into my house at night,
And while I am sleeping,
You silently carry off
All my suffering and sordid past
In Your beautiful
Hands.

Hafiz of Persia

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. 

Hafiz of Persia

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.

Hafiz of Persia

Sing
Because this is a food
Our starving world
Needs.
Laugh
Because that is the purest
Sound.

Hafiz of Persia

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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. 

Hafiz of Persia

The
Real love
I always keep a secret.
All my words
Are sung outside Her window,
For when She lets me in
I take a thousand oaths of silence.
But,
Then She says,
O, then God says,
"What the hell, Hafiz,
Why not give the whole world
My
Address."

Hafiz of Persia

Do you know how beautiful You are?
I think not, my dear.
For as you talk of God,
I see great parades with wildly colorful bands
Streaming from your mind and heart,
Carrying wonderful and secret messages
To every corner of this world.
I see saints bowing in the mountains
Hundreds of miles away
To the wonder of sounds
That break into light
From your most common words.

Hafiz of Persia (Saints Bowing in the Mountains)

Love makes of each moment an eternity
And tends the garden of the heart’s desire
When love mocks, ruby tears fall heavy as pomegranates
And when love looks, it sees your deepest mystery.
Love seeks out the tears of hidden hearts
And turns not from the Lovers of the Dawn.
Is there a remedy for the pain of love?
Or is it too unbearable for thought?
One taste of the medicine
And you will realise just how sick you have been.
Those who plead in the defence of love
In love’s judgement shall find grace
And to that court, Hafiz
May your heart fly…

Hafiz of Persia

I know the voice of depression
Still calls to you.
I know those habits that can ruin your life
Still send their invitations.
But you are with the Friend now
And look so much stronger.
You can stay that way
And even bloom!...
Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins
That may buy you just a moment of pleasure,
Buyt then drag you for days
Like a broken man
Behind a farting camel...
O keep squeezing drops of the Sun
From your prayers and work and music
And from your companions' beautiful laughter
And from the most insignificant movements
Of your own holy body.
Now, sweet one,
Be wise.
Cast all your votes for dancing! 

Hafiz of Persia (Quoted in I Heard God Laughing)

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