Top 500 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

152. “In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

153. “Asks the Possible of the Impossible, “Where is your dwelling-place?” “In the dreams of the Impotent,” comes the answer.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

154. “Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

155. “The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man’s dharma, man’s religion, and man’s self is the vessel.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

156. “The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

157. “Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

158. “If life’s journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

159. “Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet. Let it not be a death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night. Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence. I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

160. “Man’s abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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161. “The movement of life has to rest in its own music.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

162. “The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

163. “Age considers; youth ventures.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

164. “Set the bird’s wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

165. “Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

166. “My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won’t ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

167. “Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

168. “My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

169. “I have listened And I have looked With open eyes. I have poured my soul Into the world Seeking the unknown Within the known. And I sing out loud In amazement.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

170. “God finds himself by creating.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

171. “Power said to the world, “You are mine.” The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, “I am thine.” The world gave it the freedom of her house.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

172. “Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

173. “Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

174. “Our creation is the modification of relationship.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

175. “Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

176. “I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

177. “The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

178. “The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

179. “Saltwater heals, healing referring to its various forms; tears, cleanses and heals the soul; sweat, cleanses through labor; the ocean, heals in all its forms.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

180. “Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God’s own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

181. “Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

182. “The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

183. “When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

184. “Men are cruel, but Man is kind.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

185. “The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

186. “The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

187. “I am hidden in your heart, O Flower.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

188. “I ask my destiny – what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, “Look round!” I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

189. “Our responsibility is no longer to acquire, but to BE.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

190. “Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

191. “Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learned to discipline itself.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

192. “If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

193. “The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one’s daily life simply and naturally.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

194. “For here rolls the sea, and even here lies the other shore waiting to be reached – yes, here is this everlasting present, not distant, not anywhere else.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

195. “Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

196. “The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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197. “Night’s darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

198. “No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

199. “And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

200. “The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.”

— Rabindranath Tagore