Rupi Quotes & Sayings

you were the most beautiful thing i'd ever felt till now. and i was convinced you'd remain the most beautiful thing i'd ever feel. do you know how limiting that is. to think at such a ripe young age i'd experienced the most exhilarating person i'd ever meet. how i'd spend the rest of my life just settling. to think i'd tasted the rawest form of honey and everything else would be refined and synthetic. that nothing else would be refined and synthetic. that nothing beyond this point would add up. that all the years beyond me could not combine themselves to be sweeter than you.

- falsehood — Rupi Kaur

i didn't know why
i split myself open
for other knowing
sewing myself up
hurts this much
afterward — Rupi Kaur

you look at me and cry
everything hurts

i hold you and whisper
but everything can heal — Rupi Kaur

for a second i wonder if you are really that naive. if you really believe fate works like that. as if it lives in the sky staring down at us. as if it has five fingers and spends its time placing us like pieces of chess. as if it is not the choices we make. — Rupi Kaur

the rape will
tear you
in half

but it
will not
end you — Rupi Kaur

he only whispers i love you as he slips his hands down the waistband of your pants. this is where you must understand the difference between want and need - you may want that boy but you certainly don't need him — Rupi Kaur

that's the
thing about love
it marinates your lips
till the only word your
mouth remembers
is his name — Rupi Kaur

your mother
is in the habit of
offering more love
than you can carry


your father is absent


you are a war
the border between two countries
the collateral damage
the paradox that joins the two
but also splits them apart — Rupi Kaur

you've touched me
without even
touching me. — Rupi Kaur

i don't blame you for not knowing how to remain soft with me. sometimes i stay up thinking of all the places you are hurting which you'll never care to mention. i come from the same aching blood. from the same bone so desperate for attention i collapse in on myself. i am your daughter. i know the small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. cause it is the only way i know how to tell you. — Rupi Kaur

you were so afraid
of my voice
i decided to be
afraid of it too — Rupi Kaur

it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole. — Rupi Kaur

my heart woke me crying last night how can i help i begged my heart said write the book — Rupi Kaur

the one who arrives after you will remind me love is supposed to be soft he will taste like the poetry i wish i could write — Rupi Kaur

you have sadness living in places sadness shouldn't live — Rupi Kaur

you are snakeskin
and i keep shedding you somehow
my mind is forgetting
every exquisite detail
of your face
the letting go has
become the forgetting
which is the most
pleasant and the saddest thing
to have happened — Rupi Kaur

My tongue is sour
from the hunger
of missing you — Rupi Kaur

he placed his hands on my mind before reaching for my waist my hips or my lips — Rupi Kaur

when you are broken
and he has left you
do not question
whether you were
enough
the problem was
you were so enough
he was not able to carry it — Rupi Kaur

Do not beg for what does not want to stay. — Rupi Kaur

you deserve to be completely found in your surroundings not lost within them — Rupi Kaur

i can't tell if my mother is
terrified or in love with
my father it all
looks the same

i flinch when you touch me
i fear it is him — Rupi Kaur

a daughter should
not have to
beg her father
for a relationship — Rupi Kaur

i was music
but you had your ears cut off — Rupi Kaur

you plough into me with two fingers and 1 am mostly shocked, it feels like rubber against an open wound, i do not like it. you begin pushing faster and faster, but i feel nothing, you search my face for a reaction so i begin acting like the naked women in the videos you watch when you think no one's looking, i imitate their moans, hollow and hungry, you ask if it feels good and i say yes so quickly it sounds rehearsed, but the acting, you do not notice. — Rupi Kaur

it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations — Rupi Kaur

we began with honesty let us end in it too - — Rupi Kaur

that is the thing about selfish people. they gamble entire beings. entire souls to please their own. — Rupi Kaur

i am losing parts of you like i lose eyelashes
unknowingly and everywhere — Rupi Kaur

you have to stop searching for why at some point you have to leave it alone — Rupi Kaur

To be soft is to be powerful — Rupi Kaur

something about the phrase - something about
how i have to be unlike the women
i call sisters in order to be wanted
makes me want to spit your tongue out — Rupi Kaur

i don't know why
i split myself open
for others knowing
sewing myself up
hurts this much
afterwards — Rupi Kaur

you tell me
i am not like most girls
and learn to kiss me with your eyes closed
something about the phrase - something about
how i have to be unlike the women
i call sisters in order to be wanted
makes me want to spit your tongue out
like i am supposed to be proud you picked me
as if i should be relieved you think
i am better than them — Rupi Kaur

i have
what i have
and i am happy

i've lost
what i've lost
and i am
still
happy

- outlook — Rupi Kaur

isn't it such a tragic thing. when you can see it so clearly but the other person doesn't. — Rupi Kaur

how cruel i was to myself. giving you credit for my warmth simply because you had felt it. thinking it was you who gave me strength. wit. beauty. simply because you recognized it. as if i was already not those things before i met you. as if i did not remain all these once you left. — Rupi Kaur

i want to apologize to all the women i have called pretty before i've called them intelligent or brave i am sorry i made it sound as though something as simple as what you're born with is the most you have to be proud of when your spirit has crushed mountains from now on i will say things like you are resilient or you are extraordinary not because i don't think you're pretty but because you are so much more than that — Rupi Kaur

do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you — Rupi Kaur

i am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut — Rupi Kaur

Your name is
the strongest
positive and negative
connotation in any language
it either lights me up or
leaves me aching for days — Rupi Kaur

love is not cruel we are cruel love is not a game we have made a game out of love — Rupi Kaur

you were a dragon long before
he came around and said
you could fly

you will remain a dragon
long after he's left — Rupi Kaur

we are all born/ so beautiful/ the greatest tragedy is/ being convinced we are not — Rupi Kaur

love will come
and when love comes
love will hold you
love will call your name
and you will melt
sometimes though
love will hurt you but
love will never mean to
love will play no games
cause love knows life
has been hard enough already — Rupi Kaur

You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant. — Rupi Kaur

I've had sex, she said
But I don't know
What making love
Feels like — Rupi Kaur

the next time he
points out the
hair on your legs is
growing back remind
that boy your body
is not his home
he is a guest
warn him to
never outstep
his welcome again — Rupi Kaur

losing you was the becoming of myself — Rupi Kaur

i am sending my love to your eyes. may they always see goodness in people. and may you always practice kindness. may we see each other as one. may we be nothing short of in love with everything the universe has to offer. and may we always stay grounded. rooted. our feet planted firmly onto the earth. — Rupi Kaur

you look just like your mother

i guess i do carry her tenderness well

you both have the same eyes

cause we are both exhausted

and the hands

we share the same wilting fingers

but that rage your mother doesn't wear that rage

you're right
this rage is the one thing
i get from my father — Rupi Kaur

people say things
meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself — Rupi Kaur

i am not a hotel room. i am home
i am not the whiskey you want
i am the water you need
don't come here with expectations
and try to make a vacation out of me — Rupi Kaur

we all move forward when
we recognize how resilient
and striking the women
around us are — Rupi Kaur

I'd be lying if I said
you make me speechless
the truth is you make my
tongue so weak it forgets
what language to speak in. — Rupi Kaur

the letting go has
become the forgetting
which is the most
pleasant and saddest thing
to have happened — Rupi Kaur

you are the faint line between faith and blindly waiting - letter to my future lover — Rupi Kaur

sex takes the consent of two
if one person is lying there not doing anything
cause they are not ready
or not in the mood
or simply don't want to
yet the other is having sex
with their body it's not love
it is rape — Rupi Kaur

i didn't leave because
i stopped loving you
i left because the longer
i stayed the less
i loved myself — Rupi Kaur

accept yourself as you were designed — Rupi Kaur

people go
but how
they left
always stays — Rupi Kaur

there is no bigger illusion in the world
than the idea that a woman will
bring dishonor into a home
if she tries to keep her heart
and her body safe — Rupi Kaur

it must hurt to know i am your most beautiful regret — Rupi Kaur

trying to convince myself
i am allowed
to take up space
is like writing with
my left hand
when i was born
to use my right

-the idea shrinking is hereditary — Rupi Kaur

what terrifies me most is how we
foam at the mouth with envy
when others succeed
but sigh in relief
when they are failing

our struggle to
celebrate each other is
what's proven most difficult
in being human — Rupi Kaur

she was a rose
in the hands of those
who had no intention
of keeping her — Rupi Kaur

what is stronger
than the human heart
which shatters over and over
and still lives — Rupi Kaur

every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love you teach her to confuse anger with kindness which seems like a good idea till she grows up to trust men who hurt her cause they look so much like you - to fathers with daughters — Rupi Kaur

you treat them like they
have a heart like yours
but not everyone can be as
soft and as tender

you don't see the
person they are
you see the person
they have the potential to be

you give and give till
they pull everything out of you
and leave you empty. — Rupi Kaur

how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you — Rupi Kaur

when my mother was pregnant with her second child i was four i pointed at her swollen belly confused at how my mother had gotten so big in such little time my father scooped me in his tree trunk arms and said the closest thing to god on this earth is a woman's body it's where life comes from and to have a grown man tell me something so powerful at such a young age changed me to see the entire universe rested at my mother's feet — Rupi Kaur

you cannot leave
and have me too
i cannot exist in
two places at once

-when you ask if we can still be friends — Rupi Kaur

Love speaks to
The soul
In a language
The brain
Can't comprehend. — Chris Mc Geown

i do not want to have you to fill the empty parts of me i want to be full on my own i want to be so complete i could light a whole city and then i want to have you cause the two of us combined could set it on fire — Rupi Kaur

i am confident i am over you. so much that some mornings i wake up with a smile on my face and my hands pressed together thanking the universe for pulling you out of me. thank god i cry. thank god you left. i would not be the empire i am today if you had stayed.

but then.

there are some nights i imagine what i might do if you showed up. how if you walked into the room this very second every awful thing you've ever done would be tossed out the closet window and all the love would rise up again. it would pour through my eyes as if it never really left in the first place. as if it's been practicing how to stay silent so long only so it could be this loud on your arrival. can someone explain that. how even when the love leaves. it doesn't leave. how even when i am so past you. i am so helplessly brought back to you. — Rupi Kaur

you were temptingly beautiful
but stung when i got close — Rupi Kaur

sometimes
the apology
never comes
when it is wanted

and when it comes
it is neither wanted
nor needed

-you are too late — Rupi Kaur

emptying out of my mother's belly
was my first act of disappearance
learning to shrink for a family
who likes their daughters invisible
was the second
the art of being empty
is simple
believe them when they say
you are nothing
repeat it to yourself
like a wish
i am nothing
i am nothing
i am nothing
so often
the only reason you know
you're still alive is from the
heaving of your chest — Rupi Kaur

your body is a museum of natural disasters can you grasp how stunning that is — Rupi Kaur

fall
in love
with your solitude — Rupi Kaur

i always get myself into this mess.
i always let him tell me i am beautiful and half believe it. i always jump thinking he will catch me at the fall. i am hopelessly a lover, and a dreamer, and that will be the death of me — Rupi Kaur

some people are so bitter to them you must be kindest — Rupi Kaur

the idea that we are
so capable of love
but still choose
to be toxic — Rupi Kaur

do not bother holding onto
that thing that does not want you

-you cannot make it stay — Rupi Kaur

You tell me to quiet down cause my opinions make me less beautiful but I was not made with a fire in my belly so I could be put out I was not made with a lightness on my tongue so I could be easy to swallow I was made heavy half blade and half silk difficult to forget and not easy for the mind to follow. — Rupi Kaur

it means nothing to me if he loves you if he can't do a single wretched thing about it — Rupi Kaur

you leave
but you don't stay gone
why do you do that
why do you
abandon the thing you want to keep
why do you linger
in a place you do not want to stay
why do you think it's okay to do both
go and return all at once — Rupi Kaur

i thank the universe
for taking
everything it has taken
and giving to me
everything it is giving

-balance — Rupi Kaur

if you were born with
the weakness to fall
you were born with
the strength to rise — Rupi Kaur

nothing is safer
than the sound of you
reading out loud to me

-the perfect date — Rupi Kaur

what i miss most is how you loved me. but what i didn't know was how you loved me had so much to do with the person i was. it was a reflection of everything i gave you. coming back to me. how did i not see that. how. did i sit here soaking in the idea that no one else would love me that way. when it was i that taught you. when it was i that showed you how to fill. the way i needed to be filled. how cruel i was to myself. giving you credit for my warmth simply because you had felt it. thinking it was you who gave me strength. wit. beauty. simply because you recognized it. as if i was already not these things before i met you. as if i did not remain all these things after you left. — Rupi Kaur

i struggle so deeply
to understand
how someone can
pour their entire soul
blood and energy
into someone
without wanting
anything in
return

-i will have to wait till i'm a mother — Rupi Kaur

I understand this world broke you. It has been so hard on your feet. I don't blame you for not knowing how to remain soft with me. Sometimes I stay up thinking of all the places you are hurting which you'll never care to mention. I come from the same aching blood. From the same bone so desperate for attention I collapse in on myself. I am your daughter. I know the small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. Cause it's the only way I know how to tell you. — Rupi Kaur

the thing worth holding on to would not have let go — Rupi Kaur

loneliness is a sign you were in desperate need of yourself — Rupi Kaur

my issue with what they consider beautiful is their concept of beauty — Rupi Kaur

no
it won't
be love at
first sight when
we meet it'll be love
at first remembrance cause
i've seen you in my mother's eyes
when she tells me to marry the type
of man i'd want to raise my son to be like — Rupi Kaur

my favorite thing about you is your smell
you smell like
earth
herbs
gardens
a little more
human than the rest of us — Rupi Kaur

every revolution starts and ends with his lips — Rupi Kaur

I love that about us
how capable we are of feeling
how unafraid we are of breaking
and tend to our wounds with grace
just being a woman
calling myself
a woman
makes me utterly whole
and complete — Rupi Kaur