Hafiz was a Persian lyric poet, and many Iranians consider his collected works to be the best example of Persian literature. People in the Persian-speaking world frequently have his works in their homes because they have memorized and used his poems as everyday proverbs and sayings. More than any other Persian author, he has influenced writing in the post-14th century through analysis, commentary, and interpretation of his life and poems
46 Hafez Quotes
- “Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret.”
2. “Light will someday split you open; even if your life is now a cage.”
3. “Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.”
4. “Start seeing everything as God, but keep it a secret.”
5. “What drunkenness is this that brings me hope”
6. “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”
7. “I have enough of loss, enough of gain.”
8. “Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.”
9. “True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation.”
10. “I should not make any promises right now, But I know if you pray somewhere in this world Something good will happen.”
Famous Hafez Quotes
11. “I am happy even before I have a reason.”
12. “You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.”
13. “The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”
14. “For I have learned that every heart will get. What it prays for most.”
15. “The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, keeps dropping keys all night long for the beautiful rowdy prisoners.”
16. “The tide of my love has risen so high let me flood over you.”
17. “Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.”
18. “This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.”
19. “All the false notions of myself that once caused fear, pain, have turned to ash as I neared God.”
20. “We have not come into this exquisite world to hold ourselves hostage from love.”
Hafez Quotes on Life
21. “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being”
22. “An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.”
23. “Laugh because that is the purest sound.”
24. “An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.”
25. “What we speak becomes the house we live in.”
26. “Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.”
27. “When no one is looking and I want to kiss God I just lift my own hand to my mouth.”
28. “Now that your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, Why not find a better job?”
29. “The earth would die if the sun stopped kissing her.”
30. “The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this… and the Ocean does that.”
Hafez Quotes on Love and Gratitude
31. “It is all just a big love contest, and I never lose.”
32. “Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers.”
33. “There are moments in moist love where Heaven is jealous of what we on Earth can do”
34. “Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred… Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace.”
35. “Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.”
36. “The sky is a suspended blue ocean. The stars are the fish that swim.”
37. “Plant a Seed so your Heart Will Grow.”
38. “The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.”
39. “All your wounds from craving love. Exist because of heroic deeds.”
39. “I am happy even before I have a reason.”
40. “God blooms from the shoulder of the elephant who becomes courteous to the ant.”
41. “People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.”
42. “The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place.”
43. “The admission price to hear the lofty minstrels speak of love is affordable only to those who have not exhausted themselves dividing God all day and thus need rest.”
44. “When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, and be happy.”
45. “I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.”
46. “The tide of my love. Has risen so high let me flood over you.”
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