PENGGALI KUBUR
Karya: Kahlil Gibran

Suatu saat, ketika aku sedang mengubur salah satu budakku, penggali kubur datang padaku dan berkata, “Dari semua yang datang ke sini untuk menguburkan, hanya kau sendiri yang kusukai. ”

Kataku, “Kau sedang menyenangkanku, tetapi mengapa kau menyukaiku?”

“Karena,” katanya, “Mereka datang sambil menangis dan pulang juga sambil menangis, kau datang sambil tertawa dan kau pergi juga sambil tertawa.”

Kahlil Gibran

Buku: Orang Gila – Kahlil Gibran (1918)

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THE GRAVE-DIGGER

By: Kahlil Gibran

Once, as I was burying one of my dead selves, the grave-digger came by and said to me, “Of all those who come here to bury, you alone I like.”

Said I, “You please me exceedingly, but why do you like me?”

“Because,” said he, “They come weeping and go weeping—you only come laughing and go laughing.”

Khalil Gibran

Book: The Madman – Kahlil Gibran (1918)