Kahlil Gibran Quotes

1883–1931 Lebanon

Gibran Khalil Gibran (6 January 1883 – 10 April 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist.

Lebanon
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Also known as: Gibran, Khalil, Khalil Gibran

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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

And now let us play our reeds together.

Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)

They honour not the man, the living man,
The first man who opened His eyes and gazed at the sun
With eyelids unquivering.
Nay, they do not know Him, and they would not be like Him.

Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

The Prophet (1923)

You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.

Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)

When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

Sand and Foam (1926)

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

The Prophet (1923)

The world crucifies them every day,
But only in little ways.
The sky is not shaken,
And the earth travails not with her dead.

Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

But Master, Sky-heart, Knight of our fairer dream,
You do still tread this day;
Nor bows nor spears shall stay your steps.
You walk through all our arrows.

Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)

For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

The Prophet (1923)

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Visualizing Categorical Data (2000)

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Sand and Foam (1926)

A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

Sand and Foam (1926)

We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.

Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)

My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me and demonstrating to me that I am not exalted over the panhandler nor less than the mighty.

The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)

I was taken by His voice and His gestures, not by the substance of His speech. He charmed me but never convinced me; for He was too vague, too distant and obscure to reach my mind.

Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)

I sorrowed no more.
Who would sorrow for a sea that is unveiling its face, or for a mountain that laughs in the sun?

Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kahlil Gibran (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.