Khalil Gibran Quotes on Beauty (18 Quotes)

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

Have you beauty, that leads the heart from things fashioned of wood and stone to the holy mountain?

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.

All these things have you said of beauty. Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied, And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted. It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears. It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight. People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and your are the mirror.

Then my heart looked upon Life of Beauty and said: Thou art all knowledge; enlighten me as to the mystery of Woman.

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.

My life is sustained by the world of beauty which you will see where ever you rest your eyes, and this beauty is nature itself; it is the beginning of the shepherds joy among the hills, and a villagers happiness in the fields, and the pleasure of the awe filled tribes between the mountains and the plains.

Beauty is a terrible power!

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.

Today I am a slave standing before my wealth, my wealth which robbed me of the beauty of life I once knew.

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.

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.

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

Everything of beauty that awakens my love and desire is a disgrace, according to man's conceptions; everything of goodness that I crave is but naught, according to his judgment.

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.