Rumi Life Death Quotes & Sayings

I learned that every mortal will taste death, But only some will taste life. — Rumi

A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart. — Rumi

To live without you
is to be robbed of love
and what is life without it?
To live without you
is death to me, my love
but some call it life. — Rumi

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief. — Rumi

Why think separately of this life and the next when one is born from the last.... — Jalaluddin Rumi

For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it. That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge. When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water. We call this the moment of death. That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves. — Bill Viola

Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means death. — Rumi

Sometimes You are kind, sometimes unfaithful,
You break my heart but
My Love, my essence, do not go away
I can't be without You.
You are the head and I am the feet
You are the hand, I am our banner
If You leave, I will perish
I can't be without You.
You have erased my image, taken my sleep
You've torn me away from everybody but
I can't be without You.
I find no joy in life or relief in death.
Why don't You say it too.
I can't be without You. — Rumi

Love asks us to enjoy our life
For nothing good can come of death.
Who is alive? I ask.
Those who are born of love.
Seek us in love itself,
Seek love in us ourselves.
Sometimes I venerate love,
Sometimes it venerates me. — Rumi

A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection. — Rumi

What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the Water of Life. — Rumi