Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!

— George Carlin
Life Humor Faith & Religion

You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers."Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.

— Suzanne Collins
General

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

— Joseph Brodsky
Books & Writing

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

— Jhumpa Lahiri
Books & Writing

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Positive Thinking

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

— Haruki Marukami
General

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
General

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.

— Terry Pratchett
Life Humor Death & Loss

To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart," he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.

— Jamie McGuire
Love Relationships

I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.

— Stephen Chbosky
General

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

— Lemony Snicket
Humor

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

— Douglas Coupland
Life Solitude

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

— Ray Bradbury
Books & Writing

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...

— Khaled Hosseini
Life

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

— Paulo Coelho
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.