Top 120 Hafez Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.”

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

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

— Hafez

104. “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

105. “Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.”

— Hafez

106. “Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.”

— Hafez

107. “Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.”

— Hafez

108. “Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.”

— Hafez

109. “The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul.”

— Hafez

110. “There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.”

— Hafez

111. “How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.”

— Hafez

112. “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.”

— Hafez

113. “The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.”

— Hafez

114. “All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.”

— Hafez

115. “Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days.”

— Hafez

116. “I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.”

— Hafez

117. “All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days and days and days.”

— Hafez

118. “In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.”

— Hafez

119. “There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.”

— Hafez

120. “The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.- Robert Frost Now that all your worry has proved such an unattractive business – why not find a better job?”

— Hafez

121. “Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.”

— Hafez

122. “If at last thou attain the desire of thy life, Cast the world aside, yea, abandon it!”

— Hafez

123. “At daybreak on the fortieth day, the archangel Gabriel appeared before Hafiz and told him to ask for whatever he wished. Hafiz had never seen such a glorious, radiant being as Gabriel. He found himself thinking, “If God’s messenger is so beautiful, how much more beautiful must God be!” Gazing on the unimaginable splendor of God’s angel, Hafiz forgot all about the girl, his wish, everything. He said, “I want God!”

— Hafez

124. “Hafiz tells us that Love’s Journey unfolds through every process of life. Divine principles are constantly being demonstrated all around us. We cannot learn them through words or books or limited systems of human values. Hafiz says God is fully known only through love, which accepts everything. Love reveals the Universe as a cosmic playground where every thing and being participates in a single, magnificent Game.”

— Hafez

125. “Art is the conversation between lovers. Art offers an opening for the heart. True art makes the divine silence in the soul Break into applause.”

— Hafez

126. “Why does the most exquisite rose have the sharpest thorns.”

— Hafez

127. “I have enough of loss, enough of gain.”

— Hafez

128. “Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.”

— Hafez

129. “He was so slim, his heart was visible.”

— Hafez

130. “The idea that a human being can achieve “perfect love” or “perfect knowing” may seem extraordinary, yet it is a belief shared by most spiritual systems.”

— Hafez