Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran
Kahlil Gibranwas a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer of the New York Pen League...
NationalityLebanese
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 January 1883
CityBsharri, Lebanon
CountryLebanon
sympathy condolences death-of-a-loved-one
When you are sorrowful, look again.
death heart sea
If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.
death land people
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
beauty beautiful death
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
death grieving bereavement
When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
death heart eye
You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one. For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
inspirational death spiritual
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
sympathy death grief
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
change love-and-death all-things
Only love and death will change all things.
death dream spiritual
In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
aware knows memory timeless tomorrow yesterday
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.
filled laughter rises
And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
asking country desert oasis politician
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert
beauty light
Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.