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Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist best known for *The Prophet*, a book of poetic essays that has been translated into over 100 languages. His lyrical reflections on love, marriage, work, and death blend Eastern mysticism with Western romanticism in a voice that is entirely his own.

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“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”

— Khalil Gibran

Death

All Quotes by Khalil Gibran

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”

— Khalil Gibran

Faith

“Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.”

— Khalil Gibran

Truth

“Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.”

— Khalil Gibran

Wisdom

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

— Khalil Gibran

Love

“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”

— Khalil Gibran

Life

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

— Khalil Gibran

Teacher

“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”

— Khalil Gibran

Knowledge

“Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.”

— Khalil Gibran

Faith

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”

— Khalil Gibran

Teacher

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”

— Khalil Gibran

Sympathy

“Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.”

— Khalil Gibran

Equality

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

— Khalil Gibran

Love

“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”

— Khalil Gibran

Love

“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”

— Khalil Gibran

Wisdom

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

— Khalil Gibran

Wisdom

“The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.”

— Khalil Gibran

God

“I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.”

— Khalil Gibran

Dreams

“Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.”

— Khalil Gibran

Love

“Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.”

— Khalil Gibran

Love

“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”

— Khalil Gibran

Death