Top 500 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

452. “His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

453. “We can look upon a road from two different points of view. One regards it as dividing us from the object of our desire; in that case we count every step of our journey over it as something attained by force in the face of obstruction. The other sees it as the road which leads us to our destination; and as such it is part of our goal.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

454. “He whom I enclose with my name is weeping in this dungeon. I am ever busy building this wall all around; and as this wall goes up into the sky day by day I lose sight of my true being in its dark shadow. I take pride in this great wall, and I plaster it with dust and sand lest a least hole should be left in this name; and for all the care I take I lose sight of my true being. XXX.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

455. “When at even-tide the child of want lies down, dirty and hungry, in his squalid home, and hears of prince and princess and fabled gold, then in the dark hovel lighted by its dim flickering candle, his mind springs free from its bonds of poverty and misery and walks in fresh beauty and glowing raiment, strong beyond all fear of hindrance, through that fairy realm where all is possible.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

456. “The lad himself becomes painfully self-conscious. When he talks with elderly people he is either unduly forward, or else so unduly shy that he appears ashamed of his very existence.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

457. “From my heart comes out and dances the image of my own desire. The gleaming vision flits on. I try to clasp it firmly, it eludes me and leads me astray. I seek what I cannot get, I get what I do not seek.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

458. “India is there to unite all human races. Because of that reason in India we have not been given the unity of races.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

459. “I take pride in this great wall, and I plaster it with dust and sand lest a least hole should be left in this name; and for all the care I take I lose sight of my true being.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

460. “Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

461. “Many an hour I have spent in the strife of the good and the evil, but now it is the pleasure of my playmate of the empty days to draw my heart on to him;.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

462. “Your lips are bitter-sweet with the taste of my wine of pain.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

463. “God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

464. “It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

465. “The modern age has brought the geography of the earth near to us, but made it difficult for us to come into touch with man.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

466. “Even if she could have got so far without a quarrel, still there would have been a great hue and cry about the marriage itself. First, it never happened. Secondly, how could there be a marriage between a princess of the Warrior Caste and a boy of the priestly Brahman Caste? Her readers would have imagined at once that the writer was preaching against our social customs in an underhand way. And they would write letters to the papers.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

467. “Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: “I painted the night”.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

468. “In the depth of night when no one is awake to arrest me – me, the least of all men – I will silently creep to my mother’s arms and fall asleep, and may I never wake again!”

— Rabindranath Tagore

469. “For the worthy there are many rewards on God’s earth, but God has specially reserved love for the unworthy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

470. “The earth, water and light, fruits and flowers, to her were not merely physical phenomena to be turned to use and then left aside. They were necessary to her in the attainment of her ideal of perfection, as every note is necessary to the completeness of the symphony.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

471. “When you have finished with others, that is my time.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

472. “Only the trees and beasts and birds tell unmitigated truths, because these poor things have not the power to invent. In this men show their superiority to the lower creatures, and women beat even men. Neither is a profusion of ornament unbecoming for a woman, nor a profusion of untruth.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

473. “When the Goddess of Fortune deserts a house, she usually leaves some of her burdens behind, and this ancient family was still encumbered with its host of dependents, though its own shelter was nearly crumbling to dust. These parasites take it to be an insult if they are asked to do any service. They get head-aches at the least touch of the kitchen smoke. They are visited with sudden rheumatism the moment they are asked to run errands.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

474. “I longed to find Bimala blossoming fully in all her truth and power. But the thing I forgot to calculate was, that one must give up all claims based on conventional rights, if one would find a person freely revealed in truth.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

475. “Tears came to my eyes. I forgot that he was a poor Cabuli fruit-seller, while I was –. But no, what was I more than he? He also was a father.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

476. “I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

477. “EITHER you have work or you have not. When you have to say, “Let us do something,” then begins mischief. 172.”

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478. “To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life were a piece of gold it would come out of its trial brighter, but it is a trodden turf of grass, and nothing remains of it but this handful of ashes.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

479. “In love we find a joy which is ultimate because it is the ultimate truth.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

480. “All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit – the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

481. “Even he whose near ones have all died, one by one, is not alone-companionship comes for him from behind the screen of death.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

482. “Let all the strains of joy mingle in my last song – the joy that makes the earth flow over in the riotous excess of the grass, the joy that sets the twin brothers, life and death, dancing over the wide world, the joy that sweeps in with the tempest, shaking and waking all life with laughter, the joy that sits still with its tears on the open red lotus of pain, and the joy that throws everything it has upon the dust, and knows not a word.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

483. “Those who slander others,′ Sachish said, ’do so because they love slander, not because they love truth. It’s pointless therefore to struggle to prove that a piece of slander is untrue.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

484. “The fact is, those who are like everyone else arouse no hatred unless there is a reason. But when a resplendent inner self pierces the grossness that envelops it, some, quite irrationally, extend it heartfelt adoration; others, just as irrationally, try heart and soul to insult it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

485. “We have seen that in order to be powerful we have to submit to the laws of the universal forces, and to realise in practice that they are our own. So, in order to be happy, we have to submit our individual will to the sovereignty of the universal will, and to feel in truth that it is our own will. When we reach that state wherein the adjustment of the finite in us to the infinite is made perfect, then pain itself becomes a valuable asset.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

486. “The hidden clash of a silent conflict like this is far harder to bear than an open quarrel.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

487. “Woman knows man well enough where he is weak, but she is quite unable to fathom him where he is strong. The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a waste of Nature’s energy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

488. “Now losers have this advantage, that though their own folk disapprove of them they are generally popular with everyone else. Having no work to chain them, they became public property. Just.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

489. “At the very name of another country, my heart would go out to it, and at the sight of a foreigner in the streets, I would fall to weaving a network of dreams, – the mountains, the glens, and the forests of his distant home, with his cottage in its setting, and the free and independent life of far-away wilds.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

490. “The world by day is like European music; a flowing concourse of vast harmony, composed of concord and discord and many disconnected fragments. And the night world is our Indian music; one pure, deep and tender raga.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

491. “Naturally, it gave rise to a round of tears like an autumn shower that soon evaporates in the sunshine of love, leaving behind only a glow of moisture. When.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

492. “The lamps in one street after another were lighted till it seemed to him that a pervading darkness, like some demon, was keeping its eyes wide open to watch every movement of its victim.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

493. “It came to be the natural rule of life with him, that no one should add to the burden of the world, but that each should try to lighten it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

494. “Haralal explained why the money came to his house at night, like birds to their nest, to be scattered next morning.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

495. “All my work and all my dealings with people feel very easy. Actually, everything is simple. There is one straight road – if you open your eyes you can go along it. I don’t see the need to search for all sorts of clever short cuts. Happiness and sadness are both on the road – there is no road that avoids them – but peace is found only on this road, nowhere else.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

496. “Man can destroy and plunder, earn and accumulate, invent and discover, but he is great because his soul comprehends all.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

497. “The traveller in the read-brown clothes that he wears that dust may not show upon him, the girl searching in her bed for the petals fallen from the wreath of her royal lover, the servant or the bride awaiting the master’s home-coming in the empty house, are images of the heart turning to God.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

498. “Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

499. “The night kisses the fading day whispering to his ear, “I am death, your mother. I am to give you fresh birth.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

500. “In appearance Sachish gives the impression of a celestial being. His eyes glow; his long, slender fingers are like tongues of flame; the colour of his skin is more a luminescence than a colour. As soon as I set eyes on him I seemed to glimpse his inner self; and from that moment I loved him.”

— Rabindranath Tagore