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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When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them.

— Rumi
Love

Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!

— Emily Brontë
Love

A DEFINITION NOT FOUNDIN THE DICTIONARYNot leaving: an act of trust and love,often deciphered by children

— Markus Zusak
Love Family

Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.

— Lisa Schroeder
Life Love Relationships

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.

— José N. Harris
Love Sadness & Pain Courage & Strength Hope Death & Loss

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

— Charles Bukowski
Love

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

— Carl Sagan
Self & Identity Love

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

— David Byrne
Love

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.

— Murakami
Love

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

— Haruki Murakami
Love

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

— Chuck Klosterman
Love Art & Beauty

One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.

— Karen Marie Moning
Love

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

— A.A. Milne
Love

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

— Kurt Vonnegut
Life Love

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

— Sharon Salzberg
Inspirational Life Love Wisdom

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.