Quotes

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344 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

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This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

— Elizabeth Gilbert
Love

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

— Rainbow Rowell
Love Art & Beauty

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word."What a stupid lamb," I sighed."What a sick, masochistic lion.

— Stephenie Meyer
Love

I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.

— Shana Abe
Love Relationships

A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever

— Dave Matthews Band
Love Friendship Relationships

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

— Jane Austen
Love

We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.

— Cassandra Clare
Love Books & Writing Dreams

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.

— Martin Luther King Jr.
Love

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

— Tom Bodett
Love Hope Happiness

What's meant to be will always find a way

— Trisha Yearwood
Inspirational Love

Hearts are made to be broken.

— Oscar Wilde
Love Relationships

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

— J.R.R. Tolkien
Inspirational Love Hope

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

— Milan Kundera
Love

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

— Elizabeth Gilbert
Love Relationships

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

— William Shakespeare
Love Art & Beauty

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.