Top 120 Hafez Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I’m very much afraid that you will never really see the point.”

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

53. “Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.”

— Hafez

54. “It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.”

— Hafez

55. “There is A madman inside of you Who is always running for office.”

— Hafez

56. “How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.”

— Hafez

57. “If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.”

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

59. “I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let’s just get out of this mess.”

— Hafez

60. “How seamless seemed love and then came trouble!”

— Hafez

61. “Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.”

— Hafez

62. “The tide of my love Has risen so high let me flood over You.”

— Hafez

63. “Plant a Seed so your Heart will Grow.”

— Hafez

64. “When you can make others laugh with jokes that belittle no one and your words always unite, Hafiz will vote for you to be God.”

— Hafez

65. “Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.”

— Hafez

66. “I long for You so much I follow barefoot Your frozen tracks That are high in the mountains That I know are years old. I long for You so much I have even begun to travel Where I have never been before.”

— Hafez

67. “Let’s get loose with Compassion. Let’s drown in the delicious ambience of Love.”

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

69. “There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain, Others are far too deep for that.”

— Hafez

70. “Run my dear, From anything That may not strengthen Your precious budding wings.”

— Hafez

71. “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.”

— Hafez

72. “Why not become the one Who lives with a full moon in each eye That is always saying, With that sweet moon Language What every other eye in this world Is dying to Hear?”

— Hafez

73. “We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.”

— Hafez

74. “I rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence.”

— Hafez

75. “Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child’s training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.”

— Hafez

76. “The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place.”

— Hafez

77. “The moon asked me to meet her in a field tonight. I think she has amorous ideas.”

— Hafez

78. “Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.”

— Hafez

79. “A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful parched, holy mouth.”

— Hafez

80. “I have no use for divine patience – My lips are now burning and everywhere. I am running from every corner of this earth and sky Wanting to kiss you.”

— Hafez

81. “True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation.”

— Hafez

82. “God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.”

— Hafez

83. “Think of suffering as being washed.”

— Hafez

84. “Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.”

— Hafez

85. “Every desire of your body is holy; Every desire of your body is Holy.”

— Hafez

86. “Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That.”

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

88. “Whatis the root of all these words? One thing: Love. But a love so deep and sweet it needed to express itself with scents, sounds, colors that never before existed.”

— Hafez

89. “Hair disheveled, smiling lips, sweating and tipsy, garment torn, singing a love song, glass in hand, picking a quarrel, chanting a spell, yesterday at midnight she came and sat by my bed.”

— Hafez

90. “Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.”

— Hafez

91. “Grieve not because thou understand-not life’s mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.”

— Hafez

92. “On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.”

— Hafez

93. “People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.”

— Hafez

94. “The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, It fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening.”

— Hafez

95. “Your life within God’s arms, Your dance within God’s arms, Is already Perfect!”

— Hafez

96. “The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure...”

— Hafez

97. “Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!”

— Hafez

98. “We don’t need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.”

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

100. “Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers.”

— Hafez