Top 500 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

153. “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

154. “Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

156. “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

157. “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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

159. “Age considers; youth ventures.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

161. “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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

163. “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

164. “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

165. “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

166. “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

167. “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

168. “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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

173. “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

174. “The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

175. “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

176. “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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

180. “God finds himself by creating.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

184. “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

185. “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

186. “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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

188. “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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

192. “Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

194. “Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house – do not pass by like a dream.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

196. “That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance?”

— Rabindranath Tagore

197. “We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

198. “Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

199. “Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

200. “In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my house. I find her not. My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be regained. But infinite is thy mansion, my lord, and seeking her I have come to thy door.”

— Rabindranath Tagore