Top 500 Rumi Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.”

— Rumi

452. “Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.”

— Rumi

453. “I don’t want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.”

— Rumi

454. “A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.”

— Rumi

455. “You have Within you more love than you could ever understand.”

— Rumi

456. “Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself.”

— Rumi

457. “But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.”

— Rumi

458. “Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl.”

— Rumi

459. “Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”

— Rumi

460. “Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.”

— Rumi

461. “To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.”

— Rumi

462. “Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness.”

— Rumi

463. “Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.”

— Rumi

464. “I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.”

— Rumi

465. “I want a trouble-maker for a lover, Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, Who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, Who burns like fire on the rushing sea.”

— Rumi

466. “Travelers, it is late. Life’s sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings.”

— Rumi

467. “Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.”

— Rumi

468. “Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.”

— Rumi

469. “How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!”

— Rumi

470. “I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.”

— Rumi

471. “I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.”

— Rumi

472. “When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.”

— Rumi

473. “The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.”

— Rumi

474. “I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.”

— Rumi

475. “Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.”

— Rumi

476. “Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits.”

— Rumi

477. “Love, the supreme musician, is always playing in our souls.”

— Rumi

478. “Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.”

— Rumi

479. “You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.”

— Rumi

480. “Mount the stallion of love and do not fear the path, love’s stallion knows the way exactly. With one leap, Love’s horse will carry you home.”

— Rumi

481. “Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.”

— Rumi

482. “Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you’re bravely working.”

— Rumi

483. “What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?”

— Rumi

484. “If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.”

— Rumi

485. “Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.”

— Rumi

486. “Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.”

— Rumi

487. “Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

— Rumi

488. “You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?”

— Rumi

489. “If you see Two in One – I only see One in Two.”

— Rumi

490. “War, like children’s fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible.”

— Rumi

491. “Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.”

— Rumi

492. “We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones.”

— Rumi

493. “All Religions. All This Singing. One Song. Peace Be With You.”

— Rumi

494. “Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.”

— Rumi

495. “Your body is woven from the light of heaven. Are you aware that its purity and swiftness is the envy of angels and its courage keeps even devils away.”

— Rumi

496. “A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice.”

— Rumi

497. “Angels dance only with You, Beloved and only before You do I bow in adoration. You may accept me or not but I will be at your feet forever.”

— Rumi

498. “Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.”

— Rumi

499. “O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core.”

— Rumi

500. “This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love.”

— Rumi