Top 120 Hafez Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “There is A madman inside of you Who is always running for office.”

— Hafez

52. “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

53. “For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes.”

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

57. “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

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

— Hafez

59. “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

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

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

62. “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

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

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

68. “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

69. “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

70. “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

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

— Hafez

72. “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

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

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

75. “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

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

— Hafez

77. “True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation.”

— Hafez

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

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

— Hafez

81. “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

82. “Think of suffering as being washed.”

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

84. “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

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

— Hafez

86. “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

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

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

91. “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

92. “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

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

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

99. “Only a Perfect One who is always laughing at the word two can make you know of Love.”

— Hafez

100. “On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.”

— Hafez