Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

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I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

— Marilyn Monroe
Truth Life Love

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,Love like you'll never be hurt,Sing like there's nobody listening,And live like it's heaven on earth.

— William W. Purkey
Inspirational Life Love Sadness & Pain

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

— Dr. Seuss
Love Dreams

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

— Elbert Hubbard
Love Friendship Education & Knowledge

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

— Martin Luther King Jr.
Inspirational Love Society & Politics

We accept the love we think we deserve.

— Stephen Chbosky
Inspirational Love

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

— Andre Gide
Life Love

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

— John Green
Love

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

— Friedrich Nietzsche
Love Friendship Relationships

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

— Elie Wiesel
Inspirational Love Philosophy Society & Politics

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

— Pablo Neruda
Love Books & Writing

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

— William Shakespeare
Love Trust

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

— Neil Gaiman
Love

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

— Lao Tzu
Love Courage & Strength

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.