Retreat Quotes by Saib Tabrizi

In this market every head has a different fancy: everyone winds his turban in a different fashion.

— Saib Tabrizi

If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in…

— Saib Tabrizi

Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

— Saib Tabrizi

Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.

— Saib Tabrizi

When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.

— Saib Tabrizi

The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

— Saib Tabrizi

Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.

— Saib Tabrizi

To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

— Saib Tabrizi

Flowers and fruit are never combined in one place: it is impossible that teeth and delicacies should exist simultaneously.

— Saib Tabrizi

Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.

— Saib Tabrizi

Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.

— Saib Tabrizi

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is…

— Saib Tabrizi