Khalil Gibran Quotes on Love (42 Quotes)



    All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.






    Aim not your arrows at him, lest
    He takes fright and vanish 'ere he
    Pours the secrets blood as a
    Sacrifice at the altar of his
    Own faith, given him by Deity
    When he fashioned him of love and beauty.



    After a few moments of complete silence, I heard the following words uttered with sighs from weather-bitten lips, "Shed not tears, my beloved; love that opens our eyes and enslaves our hearts can give us the blessing of patience.


    Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

    the silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God's secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body's elements do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed.

    Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

    The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

    Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

    As they disappeared from my sight, I commenced to make comparison between love and money, and to analyze their position in the heart.

    Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

    Be consoled in our delay our delay, for we have taken an oath and entered Love's shrine; for our love will ever grow in adversity; for it is in Love's name that we are suffering the obstacles of poverty and the sharpness of misery and the emptiness of separation.

    Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

    Love - which is God - will consider our sighs and tears as incense burned at His altar and He will reward us with fortitude.

    You fear heaven, the source of spiritual peace; you fear nature, the haven of rest and tranquility; you fear the God of goodness and accuse him of anger, while he is full of love and mercy.

    In the city of the living I found hope and despair; love and hatred, joy and sorrow, wealth and poverty, faith and infidelity.

    One hour devoted to the pursuit of Beauty
    And Love is worth a full century of glory
    Given by the frightened weak to the strong.

    Lament me not, but sing songs of youth and joy;
    Shed not tears upon me, but sing of harvest and the winepress;
    Utter no sigh of agony, but draw upon my face with your
    Finger the symbol of Love and Joy.

    Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love.


    Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course

    But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

    Surely you would not honour one guest above the other; for he who is more mindful of one loses the love and the faith of both.

    Do not be frightened, for I am now Truth, spared from swords and fire to reveal to the people the triumph of Love over War.


    Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

    Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

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


    And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not form love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?

    Yesterday I roamed the prairies and the hills together with the Bedouin's daughter; Virtue was our companion, Love our delight, and the moon our guardian.

    Death touched his eyes; the lad sprang up as he saw Death standing by, and, with a voice full of love and hope he said, "Here I am, my beautiful Death.

    But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love And to bleed willingly and joyfully.


    It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations


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