CURATED COLLECTION

The Search for the Divine

Humans have always sensed that there is something more — and spent their whole lives trying to name it.

67 quotes found

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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

—Jorge Luis BorgesWriter & Essayist

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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Love is the sea where intellect drowns.

—JamiPoet & Scholar

Renaissance ERA • Central Asia

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I have walked on the shore that I know. I shall return.

—Kofi AwoonorPoet, Novelist & Diplomat

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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The forest breathes, and in its breath, you can hear the ancient heart of Russia.

—Boris PilnyakNovelist

Early Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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If I find in myself desires which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

—C.S. LewisWriter & Theologian

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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I cannot live, dear Lord, if I do not love Thee.

—Mechthild of MagdeburgMystic, Writer & Author

Medieval ERA • Western Europe

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Come, let us raise our hands in prayer, for we too have forgotten the art of love.

—Faiz Ahmad FaizScholar & Thinker

Late Modern ERA • South Asia

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The bird of the soul sings for love, whether imprisoned or free.

—Farid ud-Din AttarPoet & Mystic

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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Love is a secret flame that burns in the heart, yet its smoke reaches heavens.

—FuzuliPoet

Renaissance ERA • MENA

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In His love, I am lost and found. My existence is but a whisper in His vastness.

—Aisha al-BaunniyyaPoet, Scholar & Author

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.

—Jalal ad-Din RumiPoet & Scholar

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark.

—Dante AlighieriPoet & Author

Medieval ERA • Southern Europe

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The dark one has pierced my heart, I can never be healed.

—MirabaiPoet

Renaissance ERA • South Asia

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My God, my soul, my love, my longing, my comfort, my eternal good!

—Mechthild of MagdeburgMystic, Writer & Author

Medieval ERA • Western Europe

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I have sung your praise, O Lord, with my voice and with my soul.

—AndalPoet

Medieval ERA • South Asia

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My tears are proof of my love; without love, what need is there for tears?

—FuzuliPoet

Renaissance ERA • MENA

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To my lover I say: You are my heart’s desire, and my soul's refuge.

—Wallada bint al-MustakfiPoet & Caliph

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Love is the wine of existence; whoever has known it deeply has drunk divinity.

—Delmira AgustiniPoet

Industrial Age ERA • Latin America

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The whole world is looking for love, and it's looking for a way to express it.

—Sade AduScholar & Thinker

Late Modern ERA • West Africa

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Love conquers all; let us too surrender to love.

—VirgilPoet

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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