Rumi Quotes About Prisons

• One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

  Rumi

  Keys, Sight, Hands

• All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that,and I intend to end up there. Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul? I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. I didn’t come here of my own accord, and I can’t leave that way. Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home.

  Rumi

  Home, Eye, Night

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Who Says Words With My Mouth?”

• I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.

  Rumi

  Long, Ego, Prison

• Are you searching for your soul?
  Then come out of your own prison.

  Rumi

  Soul, Prison, Your Soul

• Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace

  Rumi

  Ignorance, Knowing, Palaces

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.58, Penguin UK

• Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?

  Rumi

  Fall, World, Prison

• Your way begins at the other side.
  Become the sky.
  Take an axe to the prison wall.
  Escape.
  Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
  Do it now.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Change

• Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.

  Rumi

  Wall, Sky, Prison Walls

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.52, Penguin UK

• Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Thinking

• I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

  Rumi

  Break Out, Asking, Answers

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.29, Penguin UK

• GOD Has Planted in Your Heart [ ] The Desire To Search For HIM. Do Not Look At Your Weaknesses But Focus on The Search. Every Seeker is Worthy of This Search. Strive To Redouble Your Efforts, So That Your Soul May Escape From This Material Prison.

  Rumi

  Heart, Effort, Focus

• Are you searching for the river of your soul?
  Then come out of your prison.
  Leave the stream
  and join the river
  that flows into the ocean.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Rivers, Soul

• For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Desire, Mountain

You May Also Like:

Shams Tabrizi

Hafez

Yunus Emre

Saadi

Omar Khayyam

Farid al-Din Attar

Khalil Gibran