Hafez Quotes

“Forget your voice, sing!
Forget your feet, dance!
Forget your life, live!
Forget yourself and be!”
― Kamand Kojouri

“You know how it goes:
at some point in your life,
you fell in love with someone
and had a glimpse of God.
Then you abandoned life and lover
and started celebrating
your love for God.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Art is the conversation between lovers.
Art offers an opening for the heart.
True art makes the divine silence in the soul
Break into applause.


Art is, at last, the knowledge of
Where we are standing –
Where we are standing
In this Wonderland
When we rip off all our clothes
And this blind man's patch, veil,
That got tied across our brow.

Art is the conversation between lovers.

True art awakes the
Extraordinary
Ovation.”
― Hāfez

“With That Moon Language Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.” Of course you do not do this out loud; Otherwise, Someone would call the cops. Still though, think about this, This great pull in us to connect. Why not become the one Who lives with a full moon in each eye That is always saying With that sweet moon Language What every other eye in this world Is dying to Hear.”
― Gregory Boyle

“How can you be a lover of love
and not be a lover of God?
It is impossible.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“All happenings needed to be; accept that, my
dear. Ask for any forgiveness one more time
if you must,

ask for forgiveness one more time if you must,
then move on to your glory and sublime reign.”
― Hafez

“با دلارامی مرا خاطر خوش است
کز دلم یک باره برد آرام را”
― Hafez, The Divan

“I am the sun
I am the sea
I am the one
By infinity

I am the spark
I am the light
I am the dark
And I am the night

I am Iran
I am Xerxes
I am Zal’s son
And I am a beast

I am God’s own
Emissary
Colour my heart
Red, white and green

I am Ferdowsi
I am Hafez
I am Saadi
Rolled all in one breath

Ibn Sina
Omar Khayyam
Look at me now
Bundled in one

I am the present
I am the past
I am the future
My presence will last

I am Ismail
My soul is unleashed
‘Till the day at least
The sun sets in the east”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“You see, Yousef, you can't force someone in their hearts to believe the way you do. They all tried and failed. They judged by their own convictions--not even by the truth of the teachings of Isa. No one is above God's judgment. No one has the right to judge for him.”
― Pola Muzyka, Escape The Hezbollah

“He begins to recite some verses. A Persian poem. I don’t stop desiring when my desire Is fulfilled, when my mouth wins The red lips of my beloved, When my soul expires in the sweetness of her breath. Arslan smiles, he has recognized the inimitable Hafez of Shiraz, which is confirmed by the last couplet: And you will always invoke the name of Hafez In the company of the sad and the brokenhearted.”
― Mathias Énard, Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants

“Speak Hafez! On the world's page trace
Your poems' narrative;
The words your pen writes will have life
When you no longer live.”
― Hafez, The nightingales are drunk

“Of all the roses in the world
A rosy face... is quite enough for me”
― Hafez

“یک دم غریق بحر خدا شو گمان مبر

کز آب هفت بحر به یک موی تر شوی”
― Hafez

“I’m searching for answers Great Viceroy so give it to me. Quench my thirst, let me whirl like a drunk Sufi.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“Dis qu'on n'apporte pas la chandelle à cette réunion, car ce soir en notre assemblée, pleine est la lune du visage de l'Ami !”
(Gh.47)”
― Hafez de Chiraz, Le divan

“Tolstoy, Hafez, Steinbeck and Cervantes were no longer her friends.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish