To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

- Saib Tabrizi

The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance!

- Saib Tabrizi

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

- Saib Tabrizi

The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.

- 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 the world.

- 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

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

- 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 your profit.

- Saib Tabrizi

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

- Saib Tabrizi