Layla And Majnun Quotes

“Free is a man who has no desires.”
― Nizami Ganjavi

“Thus many a melody passed to and fro between the two nightingales, drunk with their passion. Those who heard them listened in delight, and so similar were the two voices that they sounded like a single chant. Born of pain and longing, their song had the power to break the unhappiness of the world.”
― Nizami Ganjavi, Layla and Majnun

“Majnun may gaze at Layla‘s beauty, but this Layla is only a mirror […] God with Majnun‘s eye looks upon His own beauty in Layla, and through Majnun He loves Himself.”
― Fakhruddin Iraqi, Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes

“The secret path he eager chose, where Layla's distant mansion rose; he kissed the door.
A thousand wings increased his pace, whence, his fond devotions paid, a thousand thorns his course delayed.
No rest he found by day or night- Layla, forever, in his sight.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold