Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

— Virginia Woolf
Books & Writing Faith & Religion

I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.

— Stephen Chbosky
General

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.

— Rick Riordan
Love

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

— Leo Tolstoy
General

I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.

— Suzanne Collins
Love Relationships

I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?""A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus.

— Cassandra Clare
General

It kills me sometimes, how people die.

— Markus Zusak
Death & Loss

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

— Alexander Pope
Hope

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

— Charles Dickens
Humor Happiness

None but ourselves can free our minds.

— Bob Marley
Inspirational Art & Beauty

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

— Maya Angelou
Education & Knowledge

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

— E. E. Cummings
Life Books & Writing Death & Loss

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

— Haruki Murakami
Life Friendship Solitude

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

— J.M. Barrie
General

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

— Muhammad Ali
Friendship

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.