Sand and Foam Quotes

“تعالَ يا موت وأنقذني، فالأرض التي تخنق أشواكها أزهارها لا تصلح للسكن، هلم وخلصني من أيام تخلع الحب عن كرسي مجده وتقيم الشرف العالي مكانه، خلصني يا موت فالأبدية أجدر ببقاء المحبِّين من هذا العالم، هناك أنتظر حبيبتي، وهناك أجتمع بها”
― Kahlil Gibran, دمعة وابتسامة

“Every man loves two women; the one is the creation of his imagination, and the other is not yet born.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“Every seed is a longing.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, "Who are you?”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“Menn som ikke tilgir kvinner
deres små feil, vil aldri kunne
glede seg over deres dyder.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“If the great-grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, would he not have stood in awe of himself?”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“It is indeed misery if I stretch an empty hand to men and receive nothing; but it is hopelessness if I stretch a full hand and find none to receive.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“When I stood a clear mirror before you, you gazed into me and saw your image.
Then you said, "I love you."
But in truth you loved yourself in me.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“The envious praises me unknowingly.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“Only when a juggler misses catching his ball does he appeal to me.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“Wit is often a mask. If you could tear it you would find either a genius irritated or cleverness juggling.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“The angels know that too many practical men eat their bread with the sweat of the dreamer's brow.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“My friend, you and I shall remain strangers unto life,
And unto one another, and each unto himself,
Until the day when you shall speak and I shall listen
Deeming your voice my own voice;
And when I shall stand before you
Thinking myself standing before a mirror.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“The silence of the envious is too noisy.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“Every great man I have known had something small in his make-up; and it was that small something which prevented inactivity or madness or suicide.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“Mayhap a funeral among men is a wedding feast among the angels.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“It is the honor of the murdered that he is not the murderer.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“Once a man sat at my board and ate my bread and drank my wine and went away laughing at me.
Then he came again for bread and wine, and I spurned him;
And the angels laughed at me.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“بعد سكينةٍ مازجَتهَا الأحلام اللطيفة سألتها: ما هذا الجمال؟ فقد تباين الناسُ بتعريفِهِ ومعرفَتِهِ، مثلما اختلفوا بتمجيده ومحبّتِه. قالت: هو ما كان بنفسِكَ جاذبٌ إليه، هو ما تراهُ وتودّ أن تعطيَ لا أن تأخُذَ، هو ما شعرتَ عند ملقاهُ بأيدٍ ممدودةٍ من أعماقِكَ لضمّه إلى أعماقِكَ، هو ما تحسَبُهُ الأجسامُ محنةً والأرواحُ منحةً، هو أُلفةٌ بين الحزنِ والفرحِ، هو ما تراهُ محجوباً، وتعرفُهُ مجهولاً، وتسمَعُهُ صامتاً، هو قوّةٌ تبتدئُ في قُدسِ أقداسِ ذاتك وتنتهي فيما وراء تخيّلاتِكَ....”
― جبران خليل جبران, ‫دمعة وابتسامة‬

“They say the nightingale pierces his bosom with a thorn when he sings his love song. So do we all. How else should we sing?”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“Poetry is wisdom that enchants the heart.
Wisdom is poetry that sings in the mind.
If we could enchant man's heart and at the same time sing in his mind,
Then in truth he would live in the shadow of God.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“Once I said to a poet "We shall not know your worth until you die." And he answered saying, "Yes, death is always the revealer. And if indeed you would know my worth it is that that I have more in my heart than upon my tongue, and more in my desire than in my hand.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“If I were to choose between the power writing a poem and the ecstasy of a poem unwritten, I would choose the ecstasy. It is better poetry. But you and all my neighbors agree that I always choose badly.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“فحياة الأزهار شوق ووصال، دمعة وابتسامة.”
― Kahlil Gibran, A Tear and a Smile