Khalil Gibran Quotes

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's the person you want to hear from the most.

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

How can you say you want to be somewhere when you're not really sure if they want you there because they're not even talking to you?

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that.

When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.

She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

I'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to.

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.

I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.