Top 500 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

2. “It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

3. “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

4. “The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

5. “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

6. “The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

7. “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

8. “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

9. “We live in the world when we love it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

10. “Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

11. “The greed for fruit misses the flower.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

12. “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

13. “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Featured in: Time Quotes, Quotes About Memories

14. “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

15. “We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

16. “The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

17. “The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

18. “I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

19. “Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

20. “The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Featured in: Meaning Of Life Quotes

21. “Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

22. “Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Featured in: Faith Quotes, Encouraging Quotes

23. “Music fills the infinite between two souls.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

24. “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

25. “"Yo are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side," said the dewdrop to the lake.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

26. “To find God, you must welcome everything.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

27. “Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Featured in: Quotes About Reality

28. “If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

29. “Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Featured in: Summer Quotes

30. “I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

31. “A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Featured in: Reading Quotes

32. “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

33. “Inspiration follows aspiration.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

34. “I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

35. “Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

36. “Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

37. “Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

38. “Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

39. “You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Featured in: Quotes About Waiting

40. “What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

41. “What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Featured in: Real Quotes

42. “All that is not given is lost.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

43. “There is no “next” after you are dead and gone from your own world.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

44. “When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

45. “Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

46. “Merely to exist is not enough.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

47. “The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Featured in: Ambition Quotes

48. “Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

49. “The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

50. “Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.”

— Rabindranath Tagore