Quotes

Words worth keeping

2,684 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?""Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

— Ray Bradbury
Friendship Relationships

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

— Lauren Oliver
Love

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

— Robert Frost
Books & Writing

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

— Jim MORRISON
Self & Identity Truth Inspirational Freedom

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

— Jane Austen
General

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.

— Henry James
Kindness

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

— Lou Holtz
Inspirational

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.

— A.A. Milne
Dreams

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

— G.K. Chesterton
Life Society & Politics

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

— Nicholas Sparks
Relationships

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Change & Growth

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

— Friedrich Nietzsche
Life

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

— Dr. Seuss
General

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

— Diane Duane
Books & Writing

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

— D.H. Lawrence
Life Philosophy Women

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.