Hafiz Quotes

The heart is a thousand-stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love. – Hafiz

When the soul sits in silence, wise things are said. – Hafiz

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. – Hafiz

Words cannot fully express the beauty of the soul. It is a language beyond words. – Hafiz

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive. – Hafiz

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. – Hafiz

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends. – Hafiz

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. – Hafiz

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being. – 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

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself. – Hafiz

Stay inspired, stay in love, and stay connected to the divine. – Hafiz

You need a partner, not a possessive owner. – Hafiz

Find a place where you can be alone with your thoughts and dreams. Nurture your soul. – Hafiz

The words you speak become the house you live in. – Hafiz

The real journey of life is inward. – Hafiz

Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut more deep. – Hafiz

Every child has known God, not the God of names, but the God of felt presence. – Hafiz

Start a huge foolish project, like Noah. It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. – Hafiz

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor. Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out. – Hafiz

Stay close to anything that makes you feel alive. – Hafiz

Every breath taken by the heart is a loved word of God. – 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. – 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

Let love be the core purpose of your life’s work. – Hafiz

To make a man love you, never let him forget he needs you. – Hafiz

Drink the wine that moves you as a camel moves when it’s been untied. – Hafiz

A thousand sweet extinctions of myself I would endure for one life filled with union. – Hafiz

Love is the funeral pyre and upon it we lay our broken hearts. – Hafiz

Use all that you possess, but don’t sell your heart. – Hafiz

You want to be free from the earth. That is well and only possible with wind. – Hafiz

Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of truth that make you fight within yourself. – Hafiz

I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being. – Hafiz

Happiness is the sunflower of the soul. – Hafiz

My heart is bound by the beauty of your love. – Hafiz

Sometimes a wild god comes to the table. Sometimes the body door is thrown wide. – Hafiz

Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. – Hafiz

The sun, never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights up the world. – 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

You come to us with sadness and solitude, but we sit down in your presence and laugh if we can’t get you laughing within five minutes, we send for a doctor. – Hafiz

When you find yourself with the Beloved, embracing for one breath, in that moment you will find your true destiny. – Hafiz

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. – Hafiz

Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut more deep. – 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

You are the sun in drag. You are God hiding from yourself. – Hafiz

Your heart and my heart are very old friends. – Hafiz

God and I have become like two giant fat people living in a tiny boat. We keep bumping into each other and laughing. – Hafiz

The waves of grace rush in the ocean of my heart, my love. – Hafiz

While I dwell on Earth, Beloved, take my soul up to heaven. – Hafiz

Hafiz, the ocean of divine bliss is impossible to reach without the guidance of a master.