Discover the best quotes and phrases from the book The Broken Wings written by Kahlil Gibran
"Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"Perhaps the dark can veil trees and flowers from the eye. But it can’t hide love from the soul."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"Love provided me with a tongue and tears."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"And God said “Love Your Enemy,” and I obeyed him and loved myself."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"Love is the only freedom in this world, because it elevates the soul to a lofty station that cannot be attained by the laws and customs of human beings or conquered by the laws of nature."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"Every great and beautiful thing in this world is generated by a single thought or feeling within a human being."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers over our throats, one weeping and the other laughing hideously. "
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"The cup does not entice the lips unless the wine's colour is seen through the transparent crystal."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"It is said that unsophistication makes a man empty and that emptiness makes him carefree."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"I am not strong enough for life’s pleasure and sweetness, because a bird with broken wings cannot fly in the spacious sky. The eyes that are accustomed to the dim light of a candle are not strong enough to stare at the sun."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"In the morning, when I walked in the fields, I saw the token of Eternity in the awakening of nature, and when I sat by the seashore I heard the waves singing the song of Eternity."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"My life was a coma, empty like that of Adam's in Paradise, when I saw Selma standing before me like a column of light. She was the Eve of my heart who filled it with secrets and wonders and made me understand the meaning of life..."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"No, no, the moments which united us are greater than centuries, and the light that illuminated our spirits is stronger than the dark; and if the tempest separates us on this rough ocean, the waves will unite us on the calm shore; and if this life kills us, death will unite us."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"Love that comes between the naivete and awakening of youth satisfies itself with possessing, and grows with embraces. But Love which is born in the firmament's lap and has descended with the night's secrets is not contented with anything but eternity and immortality."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"If tragedy does not ensnare a man, if affliction does not agitate him, if love does not lay him down in the cradle of dreams, then his life is like a blank, white page in the book of existence. In that year I saw the"
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"The poets and writers are trying to understand the reality of woman, but up to this day they have not understood the hidden secret of her heart because they look upon her from behind the sexual veil and see nothing but the externals: they look upon her through a magnifying glass of hatefulness and find nothing except weakness and submission."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"Modern civilization has made woman a little wiser, but it has increased her suffering because of man's covetousness. The woman of yesterday was a happy wife, but the woman of today is a miserable mistress. In the past she walked blindly in the light, but now she walks open-eyed in the dark. She was beautiful in her ignorance, virtuous in her simplicity, and strong in her weakness. Today she has become ugly in her ingenuity, superficial and heartless in her knowledge. Will the day ever come when beauty and knowledge, ingenuity and virtue, and weakness of body and strength of spirit will be united in a woman?"
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
"Human society has surrendered for seventy centuries to corrupt laws and is no longer able to perceive the true meaning of the sublime, primary, and eternal codes of behaviour. Human vision has become accustomed to looking at the light of feeble candles and can no longer stare at the light of the sun. Each generation has inherited the psychological diseases and maladies of the others, and so these have become universal. They have become attributes inseparable from humanity, so that people no longer look upon them as diseases but consider them natural and noble qualities revealed by God to Adam. And when a person appears among them who lacks these traits, they see that individual as flawed and deprived of spiritual perfections. ... They reckon the upright as criminals and those with self respect as rebels."
— Kahlil Gibran (The Broken Wings)
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