Top 500 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don’t know that I Love You.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

52. “If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door- or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

53. “And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

54. “The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

55. “We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

56. “The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

57. “Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

58. “Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

59. “You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

60. “Repentance is a gift of God’s grace.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

61. “Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It’s important to know that our biggest resources are in our heart.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

62. “The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

63. “Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

64. “The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

65. “In death the many become one; in life the one become many.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

66. “The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

67. “O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

68. “He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

69. “Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

70. “Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

71. “Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

72. “Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

73. “Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

74. “Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

75. “I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

76. “The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

77. “If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

78. “Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

79. “Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

80. “God seeks comrades and claims love, The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

81. “Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

82. “O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

83. “Love’s over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

84. “Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

85. “My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

86. “Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

87. “My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

88. “The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

89. “This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

90. “Death’s stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

91. “Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

92. “Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

93. “I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

94. “Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

95. “Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones – the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

96. “When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

97. “Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

98. “Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

99. “We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

100. “The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.”

— Rabindranath Tagore