CURATED COLLECTION

The Soul's Longing for Meaning

Beneath every human restlessness is the same question — what am I here for?

24 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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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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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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A human being is never complete until the moment of death.

—Tierno BokarMystic, Scholar & Sage

Early Modern ERA • West Africa

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Love is bitter, but those who have tasted it find all else bland.

—Mihri HatunPoet

Renaissance ERA • MENA

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Only when you lose yourself completely, do you begin to find your true Self.

—JamiPoet & Scholar

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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My longing reaches the sky, but I remain rooted in earth.

—Ka'b ibn ZuhayrPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Without love, even paradise would be a prison.

—Mahsati GanjaviPoet

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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Love is not just a look — it is a look that does not turn away.

—Ibn HazmScholar, Philosopher & Poet

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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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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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 is the finest chain by which the soul is bound.

—Torquato TassoPoet

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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I am the mirror of your face; look at me if you wish to see yourself.

—Bibi HayatiPoet

Industrial Age ERA • MENA

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Love is a fire that burns away all but God. The true lover sees only the Beloved.

—Nizami GanjaviEpic Poet

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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Love is a kind of madness, and the sanest lovers are those who know it.

—Layla al-AkhyaliyyaPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Soy la boca que bebió en la fuente. Soy la sed.

—Delmira AgustiniPoet

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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Home is where the soul finds its language.

—Kofi AwoonorPoet, Novelist & Diplomat

Late Modern ERA • West Africa

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