Khalil Gibran Quotes About Skins

Quotes about: Skins

• It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

  Khalil Gibran

  Hands, Tears, Skins

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.10, Lulu.com

• Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing her in the hands of the fruit of his toil and the revenue of his diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart that he endeavored to buy is given away freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Men, Blood

• Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache. It is not a garment I cast off this day, bit a skin that I tear with my own hands... Yet I cannot tarry longer.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Pain, Regret

• He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wind, Tears, Skins

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

• What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?

  Khalil Gibran

  Judgement, Skins, Naked

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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