Hafiz Quotes
Hafez was a poet and mystic of the great Persian empire. His life and poems are still considered mystical to this day. Hafez was known for his lyrical poetry that reflects on love, spirituality, and the human condition.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said about Hafez, “He fears nothing. He sees too far, he sees throughout; such is the only man I wish to see or be. Hafiz is a poet for poets.”
“I am a hole in the flute that the Christ’s breath moves through listen to this music, I am the concert from the mouth of every creature singing with the myriad chorus
“A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action
“Infinity peeks into humanity and sees itself immediately, but we pick ourselves apart ceaselessly and never see the hidden immensity.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones,
“For I have learned that every heart will get
What it prays for
Most.”
― شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez,
“This is the kind of Friend
You are –
Without making me realize
My soul’s anguished history,
You slip into my house at night,
And while I am sleeping,
You silently carry off
All my suffering and sordid past
In Your beautiful
Hands.”
― شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī
TOP 10 Hafiz Quotes
Here are some of the10 popular and inspiring quotes from Hafez:
- “Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.”
- “The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
- “Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
- “Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been.”
- “I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.”
- “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
- “The sky waits for no one, so be like the sun and keep rising.”
- “Do not be content with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”
- “Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.”
- “Let your love be like the sun that shines brightly upon the world and warm the hearts of all it touches.”
hafiz quotes on love
“The heart is aThe thousand-stringed instrument. That can only be tuned with Love.”
― شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī, The Gift
“I should not make any promises right now,But I know if you Pray
Somewhere in this world -Something good will happen.”
― Hafiz
“Let’s get loose With Compassion, Let’s drown in the delicious
Ambience of Love.”
― شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī, The Gift
“Listen: this world is the lunatic’s sphere,Don’t always agree it’s real,
“Not loving is a letting go.
Listen,
The terrain around here
Is
Far too
Dangerous
For
That.”
― شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez, The Gift
“All your wounds from craving love. Exist because of heroic deeds.”
― شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī, The Gift
Art is the conversation between lovers.
Art offers an opening for the heart.
True art makes the divine silence in the soul
Break into applause.
Art is, at last, the knowledge of
Where we are standing –
Where we are standing
In this Wonderland
When we rip off all our clothes
And this blind man’s patch, veil,
That got tied across our brow.
Art is the conversation between lovers.
True art awakes the
Extraordinary
Ovation.”
― Hāfez
“Lean your sweet neck and mouth
Out of that dark nest where you hide,
I will pour effulgence into your mind.”
― شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī, The Gift
“You can’t
stop dreaming
just because
the night never
seems to
end.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones
“You know how it goes:
at some point in your life,
you fell in love with someone
and had a glimpse of God.
Then you abandoned life and lover
and started celebrating
your love for God.”
― Kamand Kojouri
“With That Moon Language Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.” Of course you do not do this out loud; Otherwise, Someone would call the cops. Still though, think about this, This great pull in us to connect. Why not become the one Who lives with a full moon in each eye That is always saying With that sweet moon Language What every other eye in this world Is dying to Hear.”
― Gregory Boyle
“You brought
me your darkness
& I loved you
with the radiant
tears of a
thousand suns.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones,
“The universe has her hands busy in my mind, knitting words together to blanket your wailing heart with something intricately designed.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones
“i am an
earthquake
& dance
most heavily
upon all my
faults.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones
“I keep
holding up
the mirror of the sun,
so you can see the stunning
reflections of everything
you’re becom-
ing.”
― Curtis Tyrone
“How is it you’re so ensconced with the darkness of earth, when I sit here like your moon gushing with the light of your infinite worth?”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones,
hafiz quotes your heart
All happenings needed to be; accept that, my
dear. Ask for any forgiveness one more time
if you must,
ask for forgiveness one more time if you must,
then move on to your glory and sublime reign.”
― Hafez
I’m a spiritual person, she said. “I believe in Allah, you know, though I don’t always call It ‘Allah’ and I pray the way I want to pray. Sometimes I just look out at the stars and this love-fear thing comes over me, you know? And sometimes I might sit in a Christian church listening to them talk about Isa with a book of Hafiz in my hands instead of the hymnal. And you know what, Yusef? Sometimes, every once in a while, I get out my old rug and I pray like Muhammad prayed. I never learned the shit in Arabic and my knees are uncovered, but if Allah has a problem with that then what kind of Allah do we believe in?”
― Michael Muhammad Knight
“You yourself are your own barrier – rise from within it.”
― Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi
“Art is the conversation between lovers.
Art offers an opening for the heart.
True art makes the divine silence in the soul
Break into applause.
با دلارامی مرا خاطر خوش است
کز دلم یک باره برد آرام را”
― Hafez, The Divan
Art is, at last, the knowledge of
Where we are standing –
Where we are standing
In this Wonderland
When we rip off all our clothes
And this blind man’s patch, veil,
That got tied across our brow.
Art is the conversation between lovers.
True art awakes the
Extraordinary
Ovation.”
― Hāfez
“You see yourself as a shipwreck, but we see your treasure glowing inside, beneath the oceans in your eyes.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones
“
If you desire His presence, do not be absent from Him, Hafez.
When you meet the One you desire, abandon the world and let it go!
Fire is not that with whose flame the candle laughs;
fire is that with which they burnt up the harvest of the moth.
No one like Hafez has removed the veil from the cheek of thought,
since they began to comb the curls of hair of speech with a pen.
The point of love made the heart of contemplatives bleed,
like that mole which they placed on the cheek of the beloved.
Love is a sea which encircles the world and the water of the sea is fire;
waves come which are like the mountains of the place of darkness.
“Love is
The funeral pyre
Where I have laid my living body.
All the false notions of myself
That once caused fear, pain,
Have turned to ash
As I neared God.
What has risen
From the tangled web of thought and sinew
Now shines with jubilation
Through the eyes of angels
And screams from the guts of Infinite existence
Itself.
Love is the funeral pyre
Where the heart must lay
Its body.”
― Hafiz, The Gift
“
All happenings needed to be; accept that, my
dear. Ask for any forgiveness one more time
if you must,
ask for forgiveness one more time if you must,
then move on to your glory and sublime reign.”
Hafiz
hafiz quotes on death
I’m a spiritual person, she said. “I believe in Allah, you know, though I don’t always call It ‘Allah’ and I pray the way I want to pray. Sometimes I just look out at the stars and this love-fear thing comes over me, you know? And sometimes I might sit in a Christian church listening to them talk about Isa with a book of Hafiz in my hands instead of the hymnal. And you know what, Yusef? Sometimes, every once in a while, I get out my old rug and I pray like Muhammad prayed. I never learned the shit in Arabic and my knees are uncovered, but if Allah has a problem with that then what kind of Allah do we believe in?”
― Michael Muhammad Knight
“Art is the conversation between lovers.
Art offers an opening for the heart.
True art makes the divine silence in the soul
Break into applause.
Art is, at last, the knowledge of
Where we are standing –
Where we are standing
In this Wonderland
When we rip off all our clothes
And this blind man’s patch, veil,
That got tied across our brow.
Art is the conversation between lovers.
True art awakes the
Extraordinary
Ovation.”
― Hāfez
“Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.”
― Idries Shah
“You collide with destiny caught up in the mystery of walking the halls of a mind that’s only inclined to recognize & expect victory.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones
“The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.”
― Idries Shah,
“Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.” – Hafez
“Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.”
― Idries Shah
“You collide with destiny caught up in the mystery of walking the halls of a mind that’s only inclined to recognize & expect victory.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones
“Infinity peeks into humanity and sees itself immediately, but we pick ourselves apart ceaselessly and never see the hidden immensity.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones,
Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart. – Hafez
“Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature.” – Hafiz
“Pulling out the chair beneath your mind and watching you fall upon God What else is there for Hafiz to do that is any fun in this world!” – Hafiz
“Grieve not because thou understand-not life’s mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.” – Hafiz
“I am in love with every church, and mosque, and temple, and any kind of shrine because I know it is there, that people say the different names, of the One God.” – Hafiz
“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.” – Hafez
“Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.” –Hafiz
“All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.” – Hafiz
“Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.” – Hafiz
“Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘you owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky.” – Hafiz
“If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.” – Hafiz
“Your love should never be offered to the mouth of a stranger, only to someone who has the valor and daring to cut pieces of their soul off with a knife then weave them into a blanket to protect you.” – Hafez
“The Body will again become restless Until your soul paints all its beauty Upon the Sky … For when the heart tastes its glorious destiny and you awake.” – Hafiz
“Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.” – Hafiz
“Listen; this world is the lunatic’s sphere, Don’t always agree it’s real, even with my feet upon it and the postman knowing my door My address is somewhere else.” – Hafiz
“When you can make others laugh with jokes that belittle no one and your words always unite, Hafiz will vote for you to be God.” – Hafez
“There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore, the rider of life runs with loosened reins.” – Hafez
“This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.” –Hafiz
“Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers.” – Hafiz
“Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I’m very much afraid that you will never really see the point.” – Hafiz
“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.” – Hafiz
“Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound. “ -Hafiz
hafiz quotes on peace
“The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, it fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening.” – Hafiz
“I have a thousand brilliant lies for the question: How are you?I have a thousand brilliant lies for the question: What is God?If you think that the Truth can be known from words If you think that the Sun and the Ocean: Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth, someone should start laughing! Someone should start wildly Laughing Now!” – Hafiz
“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” – Hafiz
“I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts me.” – Hafiz
“Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.” – Hafiz
“Only a Perfect One who is always laughing at the word two can make you know of Love.” – Hafiz
“All your wounds from craving love. Exist because of heroic deeds.” – Hafiz
“What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.” – Hafiz
“I should not make any promises right now, But I know if you pray somewhere in this world Something good will happen.” – Hafiz
“I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let’s just get out of this mess.” – Hafiz
“There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.” – Hafiz
“Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light…And let it breathe.” – Hafez
“The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.” – Hafiz
“The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.” – Hafiz
“If at last thou attain the desire of thy life, Cast the world aside, yea, abandon it!” – Hafiz
“I rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence.” – Hafiz
“You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.” – Hafiz
“Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun.” – Hafiz
“On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.” – Hafiz
“A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.” – Hafiz
“Light will someday split you open.” – Hafiz
“Let’s get loose with Compassion. Let’s drown in the delicious ambience of Love.” – Hafiz
“Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.” – Hafiz
“True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation.” – Hafiz
“The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.” – Hafez
“Plant a Seed so your Heart Will Grow.” – Hafiz
“The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.” – Hafiz
“Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.” – Hafez
“How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.” – Hafez
“We have not come here to take prisoners but to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.” Hafez
“Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child’s training wheels to be laid aside When you finally live with veracity And love.” – Hafez
“Laugh because that is the purest sound.” – Hafez
“The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine…that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.” – Hafez
“What is the root of all these words? One thing: Love. But a love so deep and sweet it needed to express itself with scents, sounds, colors that never before existed.” – Hafez
“Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.” – Hafez
“Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days… The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.” – Hafiz
“The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place.” – Hafiz
“Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.” – Hafiz
“Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you as few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft and my voice so tender and my need of God so absolutely clear.” – Hafez
“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.” –Hafiz
“There is a madman inside of you. Who is always running for office.” – Hafiz
“Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.” – Hafiz
“Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.” – Hafiz
“How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.” – Hafiz
“The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this… and the Ocean does that.” – Hafiz
“The sun will stand as your best man and whistle when you have found the courage to marry forgiveness when you have found the courage to marry Love.” – Hafiz
“What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!” – Hafiz
“Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.” – Hafiz
“Dear Ones, beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create to bring anesthetic relief to their sad days.” – Hafez
“When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, and be happy.” -Hafez
“Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?” – Hafez
“Run my dear, from anything That may not strengthen Your precious budding wings.” – Hafez
“An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.” – Hafez
“Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life.” – Hafez
“We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul’s life, Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.” – Hafez
“We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!” – Hafez
“I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.” – Hafez
“I caught the happy virus last night, when I was out singing beneath the stars. It is remarkably contagious – So kiss me.” – Hafez
“When no one is looking, I swallow deserts and clouds and chew on mountains knowing they are sweet bones! When no one is looking and I want to kiss God, I just lift my own hand to my mouth.” – Hafez
“The earth would die if the sun stopped kissing her.” – Hafez
“For I have learned that every heart will get. What it prays for most.” – Hafez
“Every desire of your body is holy; Every desire of your body is Holy.” – Hafez
“Your life within God’s arms, your dance within God’s arms, is already Perfect!” – Hafez
“Start seeing everything as God, but keep it a secret.” – Hafez
“For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes.” – Hafez
“You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say ‘here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life’.” – Hafez
“People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.” – Hafez
“I long for You so much. I follow barefoot Your frozen tracks. That are high in the mountains. That I know are years old. I long for You so much. I have even begun to travel. Where I have never been before.” – Hafez
“The tide of my love. Has risen so high let me flood over you.” – Hafez
“Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.” – Hafez
“This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.” – Hafez
“God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, “You’re it. I mean you’re really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen.” – Hafez
“Happiness is right in front of you.” – Hafez
“I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves through. Listen to this music.” – Hafez
“You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, my sweet, O my sweet, crushed angel.”-Hafez
“Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job?” – Hafez
“God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.” – Hafez
“It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.” – Hafez
“There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain, Others are far too deep for that.” – Hafez
“What we speak becomes the house we live in.” – Hafez
“How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.” – Hafez
“Come in, my dear from that harsh world that has rained elements of stone upon your tender face. Every soul should receive a toast from us for bravery!” – Hafez
“It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others. Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself. Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.” – Hafez
“Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.” – Hafez
“I am happy even before I have a reason.” – Hafez
“Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child’s training wheels to be laid aside When you finally live with veracity and love.” – Hafez
“Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.” – Hafez
We have not come into this exquistive world. To hold ourselves hostage from love,
Run my dear, From anything that may not strengthen your precious budding Wings.
For i have learned that the heart will get what the heart prays for .
This sky
Where we live
is no place to lose your wings
So, love ,love,
lOVE
“A day of silence can be a pilgrimage in itself.”- Hafez Quotes
“Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.” – Hafez
“Forgiveness is part of the treasure you need to craft your falcon wings and return to your true realm of Divine freedom.”- Hafez
“What we speak becomes the house we live in.”- Hafez
“What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.”- Hafez
“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.” – Hafez Quotes
I Speak because every cell in your body is reaching out for God .~ Hafiz
This place where you are right now , God circled on a mpa for you . .~ Hafiz
.~ Hafiz
I Wish i could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being ..~ Hafiz
Awake my dear .
Be kind to your sleep heart.
Take it out into the vast fields of light.
And let it breathe. .~ Hafiz
I saw the green farmland of Heaven and the sickle of the new Moon;
I was reminded of what I myself had sown, and the time of harvest.
Even if you speak harshly, and even if you curse me, I am grateful;
a bitter answer beautifies a ruby-red sugar-chewing lip.
Listen to advice, my soul, since even more valuable than their soul
youths who seek happiness hold the advice of a knowledgeable elder.
There is no entry in the street of libertinism for mere pleasure-seekers;
a traveller is necessary, one who burns up the world, not a raw one without grief.