Top 500 Rumi Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “I am pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within. Look at me not with outward eye but with inward vision of the heart; Follow me there and see how unencumbered we become.”

— Rumi

452. “Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.”

— Rumi

453. “I can sense your presence in my Heart although you belong to all the world.”

— Rumi

454. “Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.”

— Rumi

455. “There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.”

— Rumi

456. “Love calls – everywhere and always. We’re sky bound. Are you coming?”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

458. “You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You’re the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

460. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

463. “Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.”

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

466. “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

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467. “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

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

— Rumi

469. “I don’t know why; when I look at you, I see myself.”

— Rumi

470. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

475. “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

476. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

479. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

483. “Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.”

— Rumi

484. “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

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

— Rumi

486. “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

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

— Rumi

488. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

493. “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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi