Taj Mahal Quotes

“Alternate version: A tear drop on the cheek of eternity.”

“The soul of Iran incarnate in the body of India.”

“Taj Mahal is not just a monument, but a symbol of love.”

“So grand a structure cannot be purely and simply a tomb.”

“It is a celebration of woman built in marble and that’s the way to appreciate it.”

“Taj has been described as having been designed by giants and finished by jewellers.”

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“It rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.”

“I found the Taj Mahal as the most appropriate example of artistically expressed love.”

“If I'd ever grown prosperous like he was,
I'd not have waited for my beloved's death
before I erected a Taj Mahal.”

“Yeah, I can understand that. All the splendor of the Taj Mahal, without the inconvenience and expense of traveling to India.”

“Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor’s love wrought in living stones.”

“It was built with posterity in mind; we the viewers are part of its concept.”

“As a symbol of love it does not quite work for her, since its overwhelming beauty demands a passive response that is irritating to the adventurous.”

“The Taj is pinkish in the morning, milky white in the evening and golden when the moon shines. These changes, they say, depict the moods of woman.”

“The other seeming oddity of its role as a national symbol is that it has achieved this status for Indians in spite of it being Islamic.”

“Shah Jahan, who proved
an emperor to be shorter than a lover,
who turned a grave into a temple
who gave his beloved a place of God
and converted love into a prayer.”

“"Aye, build it on these banks," the monarch said,
"That when the autumn winds have swept the sea,
They may come hither with their falling rains,
A voice of mighty weeping o'er her grave."”

“No one it seems is willing to play by the rules. The original builders overlooked orthodoxy (Islamic), and modern devotees overlook unwanted historical associations, both in order to shape the Taj according to their own desires.”