I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Khalil GibranRead
When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote speaks to the profound connection between two individuals driven by their desires, resulting in the creation of limitless dreams together.
Khalil Gibran beautifully captures the essence of romantic connection by illustrating how two individuals, both with their own desires, come together to create dreams that transcend the constraints of time and space. This union is depicted as an eager and passionate convergence that transforms their wandering desires into something magnificent and boundless, emphasizing the power of love in manifesting dreams and aspirations.
Themes
LoveDreamsConnectionDesirePassion
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a wedding speech to highlight the beauty of the couple's love and shared dreams.
More from Khalil Gibran
All quotes →Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.
Khalil GibranRead
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Khalil GibranRead
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Khalil GibranRead
Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.
Khalil GibranRead
Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.
Khalil GibranRead
Similar quotes
I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
Wally LambRead
When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.
Meister EckhartRead
No one loves the man whom he fears.
AristotleRead
Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
Edgar Allan PoeRead
I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.
Richard BachRead
My wife, Keisha, came home once, and I had these violinists playing for her, and I'd prepared dinner for her, and I write poems. She's pretty amazing, so I like to celebrate that. She's really taught me how to celebrate life; that's something I've learned.
Forest WhitakerRead